1st Samuel Chapter 18 verse 26 Holy Bible
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired;
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And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.
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And his servants told David these words; and the thing was right in David's sight to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired,
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And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
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And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law: and the days had not expired.
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When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;
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And his servants declare to David these words, and the thing is right in the eyes of David, to be son-in-law to the king; and the days have not been full,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 26, 27. - It pleased David well to he the king's son-in-law. Besides the great honour, David, not suspecting any malicious purpose on Saul's part, may have hoped that this relationship would put an end to the miserable state of things which existed between him and Saul. He harboured no treasonable purposes, and would have gladly served Saul faithfully if he had been permitted. The nature also of the dowry fell in with his adventurous and war-loving disposition. The days were not expired. Wherefore, etc. A difficulty arises here from the wrong division of the verses, and from our translators having rendered the clauses as if they were independent of each other. The Hebrew is, "And the days were not full, and David arose, etc. The dowry was to be given within a fixed time, and before it had expired David, who had been forming his plans, set out with his men and made an incursion into the Philistine territory, whence he brought back to the king twice as many foreskins as had been stipulated; and thereupon Michal became David's wife.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) It pleased David well.--The king's design succeeded well, and the prospect of the alliance with Saul spurred on this brave soldier to more daring achievements, and yet wilder feats of arms. The savage, half-barbarous state of the age, however, comes prominently into view when we reflect upon the ferocious cruelty of such an offer being made and accepted, and carried out with even more than the required number of victims.
