Subjects

When David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”

When Hadadezer’s subjects saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites anymore.

A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’