Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 25:8
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1 Samuel25:8
8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee: wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: (for we come in a good day ) give I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand, unto thy servants , and to thy son David.
i. e. In a day of Feasting and Rejoycing; when men are most chearful and liberal; when thou maist relieve us out of thy abundance without damage to thy self; when thou art receiving the Mercies of God, and therefore obliged to pity and relieve distressed and indigent Persons, Deut. 12. 12. and 14. 26, 29. and 15. 7.
To us who have been and still are ready to serve and guard thee and thine. Or, the word Servants may be onely used as a word of respect, frequently used in Scripture, where Inferiors speak to Superiors, especially when they be suppliants, and beg some favour.
So he calls himself, to shew that respect and affection which he bore to Nabal, as being elder and wealthier than himself, and of the same Tribe with himself, and a Branch of so worthy a Family as Nabal's was.
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