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
See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not.

A poor man

1 Samuel 9:21
And Saul will answer and say, Am not I a son of the Jaminite, from the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and my family small more than all the families of the tribes of Benjamin and wherefore spakest thou to me according to this word?
Proverbs 14:20
Also the poor shall be hated by his neighbor: and many loving the rich one.
Proverbs 19:6
Many will wait for the face of the prince, and every one the friend to the man giving.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man.

And lightly

Psalm 119:141
I am small and despised: I did not forget thy charges.