1 Samuel 18:18

David Marries Saul's Daughter Michal

¹⁷ Saul told David, “Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife, if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “My hand doesn’t need to be against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.” ¹⁸ Then David responded, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?” ¹⁹ When it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

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1 Samuel 18:23

Saul’s servants reported these words directly to David, but he replied, “Is it trivial in your sight to become the king’s son-in-law? I am a poor man who is common.”

2 Samuel 7:18

Then King David went in, sat in the Lord’s presence, and said,

Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?

1 Samuel 9:21

Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe? So why have you said something like this to me?”

Exodus 3:11

But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Ruth 2:10

She bowed with her face to the ground and said to him, “Why are you so kind to notice me, although I am a foreigner?”

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord is what wisdom teaches,
and humility comes before honor.

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Proverbs 18:12

Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud,
but humility comes before honor.

Jeremiah 1:6

But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth.”