1 Samuel 17:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. ”

• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 pa...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  forty . The number significant of probation. App-10.

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. Compare the notes at 1...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  David slays Goliath 1 Samuel 17:1 to 1 Samuel 18:5 is evidently taken from a different document from 1 Samuel 16:14-23 . In 1 Samuel 16:14-23 ; David is a man of war, and skilful in speech,...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And presented himself forty days. — Wordsworth, following Augustine, sees here a reference to the temptation of the true David, who “was in the wilderness forty days, tempted of the devil.” “In D...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXIV. DAVID'S CONFLICT WITH GOLIATH 1 Samuel 17:1-58 . THESE irrepressible Philistines were never long recovering from their disasters. The victory of Jonathan had been impaired by the...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Israel Defied by the Philistine Champion 1 Samuel 17:1-16 When their king lost the special consciousness of God's presence and power, the whole kingdom became demoralized, and the Hebrews had t...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (16) And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. Surely the Lord overruled the desire of this giant, and somehow or other overawed his mind, to restrain him f...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Philistine drew near morning and evening ,.... Twice a day he came near the camp, within the hearing of it. The Jews w say, he took those seasons on purpose to disturb them in reading their...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. Ver. 16. And presented himself forty days. ] Braving and daring any one of them to a duel, which none durst adve...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 challen...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  David Comes to the Camp of Israel. B. C. 1060.       12 Now David was the son of that Ephr...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Goliath Challenges Israel With No Takers. David Is Sent To Take His Brothers Food ( 1 Samuel 17:1-19 ). This passage brings us face to face with two figures, the first the formidable Philistine wa...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITITCAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 17:12 . “The full account of the person and family of David tells what we already know from chap. 16, and yet reads as if nothing had been said of his ori...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 sout...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  ADVANCE OF DAVID IN REPUTATION BY THE SLAUGHTER OF GOLIATH ( 1 Samuel 17:1-9 .). EXPOSITION GOLIATH 'S DEFIANCE OF ISRAEL ( 1 Samuel 17:1-9 ). 1 Samuel 17:1 Th...

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  David Plays for Saul

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• 1 Samuel 17:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Luke 4:2 ; Matthew 4:2

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