And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
And the servants of Saul declare to him, saying, `According to these words hath David spoken.'
And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner did David speak.
1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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And the servants of Saul told him, saying, on this manner spake David. Such and such words were spoken by him, to this purpose; the sum and substance of them were expressive of his unworthiness to be a king's son-in-law, and of his inability to bring a dowry suitable to her quality.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
