1 Samuel 18:8

8 Saül fut très irrité, et cela lui déplut. Il dit: On en donne dix mille à David, et c'est à moi que l'on donne les mille! Il ne lui manque plus que la royauté.

1 Samuel 18:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 18:8

And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him
Partly because they called him plain Saul, and not King Saul; did not give him his royal title, which might serve to strengthen his suspicion, after suggested; and chiefly because they attributed a greater number of slain to David than to him, as follows:

and he said, they have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me
they ascribed [but] thousands;
and so had given more honour to an inferior officer than to the commander-in-chief, more to a subject than to a sovereign:

and [what can] he have more but the kingdom?
there is nothing left out of their song, and nothing remains to be given him but that; some think that Saul knew, by the prudent behaviour of David, and the favour he was in with God and men, and by these commendations of the women, that the kingdom would be his; and that the words of Samuel were true, and would be confirmed, that the kingdom would be rent from him, and given to his neighbour better than he. This clause, with ( 1 Samuel 18:9-11 ) , is left out of the Greek version, according to the Vatican copy.

1 Samuel 18:8 In-Context

6 Comme ils revenaient, lors du retour de David après qu'il eut tué le Philistin, les femmes sortirent de toutes les villes d'Israël au-devant du roi Saül, en chantant et en dansant, au son des tambourins et des triangles, et en poussant des cris de joie.

7 Les femmes qui chantaient se répondaient les unes aux autres, et disaient: Saül a frappé ses mille, Et David ses dix mille.

8 Saül fut très irrité, et cela lui déplut. Il dit: On en donne dix mille à David, et c'est à moi que l'on donne les mille! Il ne lui manque plus que la royauté.

9 Et Saül regarda David d'un mauvais oeil, à partir de ce jour et dans la suite.

10 Le lendemain, le mauvais esprit de Dieu saisit Saül, qui eut des transports au milieu de la maison. David jouait, comme les autres jours, et Saül avait sa lance à la main.