²¹ Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?

¹⁷ Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

²⁷ There is little Benjamin, their ruler, The princes of Judah, their council, The princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

⁴⁶ So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.

⁴⁷ But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

⁴⁸ The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

¹¹ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

¹ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

²³ Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

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?

²⁷ But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

¹⁴ Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?

¹⁵ He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.