Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Foreskins
To be avenged
Thought
Bible References
Dowry
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter."
Genesis 34:12
{Make the bride price and gift as high as you like}; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."
Exodus 22:16
" 'If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and he lies with her, he surely will give her bride price {to have her as his wife}.
Foreskins
1 Samuel 17:26
Now David had spoken to the men [who were] standing with him, saying, "What will be done for the man who defeats this Philistine and removes [the] disgrace from Israel? For who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine that he defies the battle lines of the living God?"
Genesis 17:11
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
Joshua 5:3
So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the {Israelites} at the hill of the foreskins.
To be avenged
1 Samuel 14:24
Now the men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, because Saul had made the army take an oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats [any] food until evening, when I will have avenged myself on my enemies!" So none of the army tasted [any] food.
Thought
1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here [is] my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as [your] wife. Only be {a brave warrior} for me and fight the battles of Yahweh." For Saul thought, "My hand will not be against him, but let the hand of [the] Philistines be against him."
2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men, that they [are] mighty warriors and they {are enraged} as a bear robbed of [her] offspring in the field. Your father [is] a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops.