THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 18:25Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל כֹּֽה־תֹאמְר֣וּ לְדָוִ֗ד אֵֽין־חֵ֤פֶץ לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּמֹ֔הַר כִּ֗י בְּמֵאָה֙ עָרְל֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים לְהִנָּקֵ֖ם בְּאֹיְבֵ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְשָׁא֣וּל חָשַׁ֔ב לְהַפִּ֥יל אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד בְּיַד־פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 34:12Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
- 1 Sam 14:24And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
- 1 Sam 18:17And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.
- 1 Sam 17:36For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?
- Gen 17:11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.
- Gen 17:14The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.
- Ex 22:16If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.
- Ex 22:17If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.