Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
A light
And lightly
Bible References
A light
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love, the Father hath bestowed upon us - that, children of God, we should be called, - and such we are! Therefore, the world understandeth us not, because it understood not him.
A poor man
1 Samuel 9:21
Then answered Saul, and said - Am not I, a man of Benjamin, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and is not , my family, the poorest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Wherefore, then, hast thou spoken unto me of such a thing as this?
Proverbs 14:20
Even by his neighbour, is poor man hated, but, the lovers of the rich man, are many.
Proverbs 19:6
Many, will entreat the favour of a noble, and, every one, is a friend to a man abounding in gifts.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
but there was found therein, a man, poor but wise, and, he, delivered the city by his wisdom, - yet, no one, remembered that poor man.
And lightly
Psalm 119:141
Small, am I, and despised, Thy precepts, have I not forgotten.