Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
4. That the inquiries of a young man, who is not said to have declared any intentions of accepting the challenge of the Philistine, would scarcely have been related to the king. But now, if this passage be supposed to have been interpolated, we must see how the connection stands upon its being omitted.