1 Samuel 18:30

Then the princes, &c. " And the princes, &c., and it came to pass as often as they went forth, &c." This notice of David's continual success and growing popularity gives the ground of Saul's increasing enmity, and prepares the way for the narrative of the next chapter.

set by i.e. esteemed. Cp. Psalms 15:4 in the P. B. V. "He that settethnot byhimself."