That the battle may be decided by us two alone. Such offers were frequent in those times. And possibly he thought the valiant Jonathan, who had assaulted a whole army, would never have refused this challenge. But God so ordered the matter, that none should accept it, because he would reserve this honour for David, as a step to his kingdom.
Verse 1 Samuel 17:8. _I A PHILISTINE_] The _Targum_ adds much to this speech. This is the substance: "I am Goliath the Philistine of Gath, who killed the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas the prie...
2. DAVID AND GOLIATH CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Goliath of Gath, the Philistine (1 Samuel 17:1)_ 2. David's errand and inquiry (1 Samuel 17:12) 3. David's offer to fight Goliath (1 Samuel 17:31)
1 SAMUEL 17:1 TO 1 SAMUEL 18:5. DAVID AND GOLIATH (E, with additione by R). In this section two narratives seem to have been interwoven. For the sake of convenience, we may denote one set of passages...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14....
_am not I a Philistine_ Rather, THE PHILISTINE; the representative of the nation. The Targum puts a long speech into Goliath's month. "l am Goliath the Philistine of Gath, who slew the two sons of Eli...
Goliath's Challenge 4. _a champion_ Lit. " THE (well-known) man of the interspaces," or "interval between two camps" (Gr. μεταίχμιον : see Eur. _Phoen_. 1361, in the account of the combat between Ete...
AND HE STOOD AND CRIED UNTO THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL— Antiquity furnishes us with many examples of single combats like this proposed by Goliath. Thus Paris and Menelaus in Homer, and the Horatii and Curia...
_Goliath's Challenge._ 1 Samuel 17:1-11 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which _belongeth_ to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh an...
_AND HE STOOD AND CRIED UNTO THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY ARE YE COME OUT TO SET YOUR BATTLE IN ARRAY? AM NOT I A PHILISTINE, AND YE SERVANTS TO SAUL? CHOOSE YOU A MAN FOR YOU, AND LE...
DAVID SLAYS GOLIATH 1 Samuel 17:1 to 1 Samuel 18:5 is evidently taken from a different document from 1 Samuel 16:14. In 1 Samuel 16:
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 17 DAVID AND GOLIATH V1 The *Philistines gathered their army ready for a battle. They met at Sucoh in the land of *Judah. They camped in the...
AM NOT I A PHILISTINE? — The literal rendering here gives a far more forcible reading: _Am not I the Philistine?_ the famous warrior whom you know too well? The Targum of Jonathan adds here the proud...
וַֽ יַּעֲמֹ֗ד וַ יִּקְרָא֙ אֶל ־מַעַרְכֹ֣ת יִ
CHAPTER XXIV. _ DAVID'S CONFLICT WITH GOLIATH_ 1 Samuel 17:1. THESE irrepressible Philistines were never long recovering from their disasters. The victory of Jonathan had been impaired by the exhaus...
ISRAEL DEFIED BY THE PHILISTINE CHAMPION 1 Samuel 17:1 When their king lost the special consciousness of God's presence and power, the whole kingdom became demoralized, and the Hebrews had the humili...
The story contained in this chapter is one of the most familiar of the Old Testament narratives. It places Saul and David in sharp contrast as each stands out in clear relief. In the presence of the e...
_Out; exulting, Ecclesiasticus xlvii. 5. (Menochius) --- Servants; I am free. (Haydock) --- Hand. Such combats were very common in ancient times. Paris and Menelaus, Hector and Ajax. The Horatii and C...
(8) And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and...
Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...
The Philistines, that type of the enemy's power, present themselves again with their champion at their head, against whom no one dares to fight. David had returned home, and was living in the simplici...
AND HE STOOD AND CRIED UNTO THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL,.... He stood in the valley between the two armies, and cried with a loud voice that he might be heard; and as he was of such a monstrous stature, no d...
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and...
_Let him come down to me_ That the battle may be decided by us two alone. _They were greatly afraid_ This may seem strange, considering the glorious promises of God, and their late experience of divin...
1 The armies of the Israelites, and Philistines beeing readie to battell, 4 Goliath commeth proudly forth, to chalenge a combate. 12 Dauid sent by his father to visit his brethren, taketh the chalen...
DAVID PLAYS FOR SAUL...
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, the divisions and companies as they were set up in battle array, AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY ARE YE COME OUT TO SET YOUR BATTLE IN ARRAY? AM NOT I A PHILI...
Goliath's Defiance of Israel...
The time comes when both Saul and David are to be publicly proven as regards their fitness to rule over Israel. The Philistines, though previously defeated through Jonathan's faith, return to challeng...
1-11 Men so entirely depend upon God in all things, that when he withdraws his help, the most valiant and resolute cannot find their hearts or hands, as daily experience shows....
1 Samuel 17:8 stood H5975 (H8799) out H7121 (H8799) armies H4634 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) out...
GOLIATH CHALLENGES ISRAEL WITH NO TAKERS. DAVID IS SENT TO TAKE HIS BROTHERS FOOD (1 SAMUEL 17:1). This passage brings us face to face with two figures, the first the formidable Philistine warrior, Go...
1 Samuel 17 Notice: I. David was on God's side. This was a religious war. Goliath fought for Dagon and cursed David by his gods. David fought for Jehovah. Let every child know for certain that he is...
CONTENTS: Defiance of Israel by Goliath and David's victory over him. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul, Goliath, Eliab, Abinadab, Shammah. CONCLUSION: The battle is God's battle. If our confidence is pur...
1 Samuel 17:4. _There went out a champion, Goliath of Gath;_ a military character well known to the Hebrews. More than thirty years before he had scattered the army of Israel, slain the sons of Eli, a...
_Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle._ THE BATTLE OF ELAH While the Philistines were posted on the stony hills covered with brushwood which bounded the valley on the south, S...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 17:1 David has been chosen by the Lord, anointed as king privately, and has been serving in Saul’s court. Now, he defeats Goliath and, as a result, becomes publicly known. Da...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 17:4 A CHAMPION in ancient Near Eastern literature is a man who steps out to fight between two battle lines. Here Goliath offers to fight, on behalf of his side, against any...
CRITITCAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 17:1. “THE PHILISTINES GATHERED TOGETHER THEIR ARMIES.” Jamieson considers that this was twenty-seven years after their overthrow at Michmash. “SHOCHOH,” now _...
ADVANCE OF DAVID IN REPUTATION BY THE SLAUGHTER OF GOLIATH (1 Samuel 17:1.). EXPOSITION GOLIATH'S DEFIANCE OF ISRAEL ...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the seventeenth chapter of first Samuel? In the seventeenth chapter of first Samuel, we read where, The Philistines had gathered their armies together [against the child...
1 Chronicles 21:3; 1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 8:17; 2 Samuel 11:11...
Come down — That the battle may be decided by us two alone....