I Księga Samuela 18:25

Biblia Brzeska

Tedy rzekł Saul: Tak mu powiedzcie: Niedba-ć król o wiano, jedno tylko chce mieć sto nieobrzezek filistyńskich, aby się tak pomsta stała nad nieprzyjaciółmi królewskimi. Bo myślił Saul, jakoby wydać Dawida w ręce Filistynom.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I rzekł Saul: Tak powiedzcie Dawidowi: Nie dbać król o wiano, tylko chce mieć sto nieobrzezek Filistyńskich, aby się stała pomsta nad nieprzyjaciołmi królewskimi; bo Saul myślił, jakoby Dawida podać w ręce Filistynom.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Saul jednak polecił: Powiedzcie Dawidowi, że królowi nie zależy na wianie. Wolałby sto filistyńskich napletków, jako dowód zemsty na jego wrogach. Saul bowiem wciąż dążył do tego, by Dawid wpadł w ręce Filistynów.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A Saul powiedział: Tak oświadczcie Dawidowi: Król nie żąda innego wiana niż sto pelisztyńskich napletków, by wziąć pomstę na wrogach króla. Gdyż Saul zamierzał zgubić Dawida ręką Pelisztinów.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
I rzekł Saul: Tak powiedzcie Dawidowi: Nie dbać król o wiano, tylko chce mieć sto nieobrzezek Filistyńskich, aby się stała pomsta nad nieprzyjaciołmi królewskimi; bo Saul myślił, jakoby Dawida podać w ręce Filistynom.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Saul odpowiedział: Tak powiedzcie Dawidowi: Król nie chce innego wiana jak tylko sto napletków filistyńskich, aby się pomścić na swoich wrogach. Saul planował bowiem, że Dawid wpadnie w ręce Filistynów.

Biblia Warszawska
A Saul rzekł: Tak powiedzcie Dawidowi: Król nie chce innego wiana, jak tylko sto napletków filistyńskich, aby zemścić się na wrogach króla. Saul zaś zmierzał do tego, aby Dawid wpadł w ręce Filistyńczyków.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

dowry: Genesis 29:18, Genesis 34:12, Exodus 22:16, Exodus 22:17

but an hundred: That is, Thou shalt slay one hundred Philistines, and thou shalt produce their foreskins as a proof, not only that thou hast killed one hundred men, but that these are of the uncircumcised Philistines.

foreskins: 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:36, Genesis 17:11-14, Joshua 5:3

to be avenged: 1 Samuel 14:24

thought: 1 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 17:8-11

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:20 - by laying 1 Samuel 18:13 - removed 2 Samuel 3:14 - an hundred 2 Samuel 11:15 - Set ye 2 Samuel 19:9 - The king Hosea 3:2 - I bought

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul said, thus shall ye say to David,.... In answer to his objections, and in order to remove them, and especially what concerned the dowry:

the king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies; that is, he required or desired no other dowry of David, but that he would slay an hundred Philistines, and bring their foreskins to him; by which he would be able to know that they were Philistines he slew, not Israelites who were circumcised; though it cannot well be thought that Saul should have any suspicion of that, or take such a method to prevent it; but as those were almost, if not altogether, the only uncircumcised persons that were their neighbours, since the Arabians, Edomites, Midianites, c. received circumcision from their ancestors, it would be a clear case to him that these were the men he slew and whom he the rather pitched upon, because they were his enemies, and the enemies of Israel, and abhorred of the Lord; which carried in it a show of zeal for the glory of God, and the good of his people, and because he hoped David would fall by them in the enterprise, or however render himself very odious to them, and they would bear him ill will, and seek his ruin. Strabo y reports of the people in Carmania, that no man among them marries a wife before he cuts off the head of an enemy, and brings it to the king; and the king lays up the skulls in a treasury, and he is the most famous that has the most heads brought unto him. Saul chose not heads, but foreskins, for the reasons before given:

but Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines; he hoped in the enterprise the Philistines would be too powerful for him, and kill him.

y Geograph. l. 15. p. 500. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. l. 1. c. 24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An hundred foreskins - This is merely another expression of the spirit which led to the constant application of the epithet uncircumcised to the Philistines 1 Samuel 14:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 18:25. But a hundred foreskins — That is, Thou shalt slay one hundred Philistines, and thou shalt produce their foreskins, as a proof, not only that thou hast killed one hundred men, but that these are of the uncircumcised. A custom similar to this still prevails among the Abyssinians, according to Bruce. See his Travels.