And David said to the servants of Saul, Does it seem like a little thing to you to become the king's son-in-law? I am a poor man and of little account — David's response repeats his earlier refusal, the assertion of his humble origins as disqualification for royal marriage. The *ish dal v'nikhleh*, poor man and of little account, invokes genuine poverty and social marginality, the conditions of his shepherd background. David's humility appears genuine, yet it may conceal wariness, a perception that the marriage proposal harbors danger.

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