SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:25
Y cada uno de los de Israel decía: ¿No habéis visto a aquel varón que sube? El sube para deshonrar a Israel. Al que le venciere, el rey le enriquecerá con grandes riquezas, y le dará su hija, y hará franca la casa de su padre en Israel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. And the men of Israel said , etc.] To one another: have ye seen this man that is come up ? taken notice of him, and observed him? surely to defy Israel is he come up ; to challenge them to fight with him, and upbraid them with cowardice that they did not: and it shall be [that] the man who killeth him ; this, and what follows, they said to encourage any person to engage with him, though none of them cared to encounter him themselves: the king will enrich him with great riches ; give him a large gratuity, make a present of a great sum of money to him: and will give him his daughter to be his wife , in like manner as Caleb promised to give his daughter in marriage to the person that should take Kirjathsepher, ( Judges 1:12); and make his father’s house free in Israel ; from all tributes, taxes, levies, impositions, king’s service, and duty; or, as the Targum, “make his father’s house freemen, nobles;” raise it to the rank of nobility.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-30 - Jesse little thought of sending his son to the army at that critica juncture; but the wise God orders actions and affairs, so as to serv his designs. In times of general formality and lukewarmness, ever degree of zeal which implies readiness to go further, or to ventur more in the cause of God than others, will be blamed as pride an ambition, and by none more than by near relations, like Eliab, or negligent superiors. It was a trial of David's meekness, patience, an constancy. He had right and reason on his side, and did not rende railing for railing; with a soft answer he turned away his brother' wrath. This conquest of his own passion was more honourable than tha of Goliath. Those who undertake great and public services, must no think it strange if they are spoken ill of, and opposed by those from whom they expect support and assistance. They must humbly go on with their work, in the face not only of enemies' threats, but of friends slights and suspicions.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 אישׁ 376 ישׂראל 3478 הראיתם 7200 האישׁ 376 העלה 5927 הזה 2088 כי 3588 לחרף 2778 את 853 ישׂראל 3478 עלה 5927 והיה 1961 האישׁ 376 אשׁר 834 יכנו 5221 יעשׁרנו 6238 המלך 4428 עשׁר 6239 גדול 1419 ואת 853 בתו 1323 יתן 5414 לו ואת 853 בית 1004 אביו 1 יעשׂה 6213 חפשׁי 2670 בישׂראל׃ 3478
