1 Samuel 18:24

24 And the servants told to Saul, and said, David spake such words.

1 Samuel 18:24 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 18:24

And the servants of Saul told him, saying, on this manner
spake David.
] Such and such words were spoken by him, to this purpose; the sum and substance of them were expressive of his unworthiness to be a king's son-in-law, and of his inability to bring a dowry suitable to her quality.

1 Samuel 18:24 In-Context

22 And Saul commanded to his servants, (and said,) Speak ye privily to David, as if it were me unwitting (Speak ye privately to David, as if I did not know it), and say ye to him, Lo! thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee; now therefore be thou [the] husband of the king's daughter.
23 And the servants of Saul spake all these words in the ears of David. And David said, Whether it seem little to you (for) me to be the king's son-in-law? Forsooth I am a poor man, and a feeble (I am but a poor and feeble man).
24 And the servants told to Saul, and said, David spake such words.
25 Soothly Saul said, Thus speak ye to David, The king hath no need to gifts for spousals, no but only to an hundred prepuces, that is, men's rods uncircumcised, of the Philistines, that vengeance be made of the king's enemies. Certainly Saul thought to betake David into the hands of Philistines. (And Saul said, Speak ye thus to David, and say, The king hath no need for wedding gifts, but only for a hundred prepuces, that is, the rods of a hundred uncircumcised men, of the Philistines, so that vengeance be taken upon the king's enemies. For Saul intended to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.)
26 And when the servants of Saul had told to David the words, which Saul had said, the word pleased in the eyes of David, that he should be made the king's son-in-law. And after a few days, (And when Saul's servants told David what Saul had said, it pleased him, that he could become the king's son-in-law. And so, after a few days,)
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