1 Samuel 18:23
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?
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Cross references
- 1 Samuel 9:21 And Saul answered and said, 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? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
- Psalm 119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
- Proverbs 14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.