²¹ Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite^(A) from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe?^(B) So why have you said something like this to me?”

²³ Saul’s servants reported these words directly to David,^[a] 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.”^(A)

David’s Prayer of Thanksgiving

¹⁸ Then King David went in,^(A) sat in the Lord’s presence, and said,