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 love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
A poor man
1 Samuel 9:21
And Saul answereth and saith, 'Am not I a Benjamite -- of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? and why hast thou spoken unto me according to this word?'
Proverbs 14:20
Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.
Proverbs 19:6
Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!
And lightly
Psalm 119:141
Small I am, and despised, Thy precepts I have not forgotten.