18David said to Saul, |Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?|


In Context

15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

17 Saul said to David, |Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles.| For Saul said, |Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.|

18 David said to Saul, |Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?|

19 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

20 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

1 Samuel 18:18 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:18But David said to Saul, "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?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said unto Saul, Who [am] I? and what [is] my life, [or] my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said to Saul: Who am I, or what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law of the king?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said unto Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18And David saith unto Saul, 'Who am I? and what my life — the family of my father in Israel — that I am son-in-law to the king?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?