Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
Were
Dead men
Didst thou
To cry
Bible References
Were
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two droves.
Dead men
1 Samuel 26:16
It is not good that thou hast done. As truly as the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have no better kept the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the cruse of water that were at his head."
Didst thou
2 Samuel 9:7
And David said, "Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan's sake and will restore thee all the fields of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat meat on mine own table always."
To cry
2 Kings 8:3
And at the seven years' end, when the woman was come again out of the land of the Philistines she went out to speak to the king for her house and for her land.