1 Corinthians 2:15; 1 Peter 3:9; Acts 11:2-4; Proverbs 15:1
Is there not a cause? - i. e., is not Saul’s promise, and the insolence of Goliath, a sufficent cause for what I am about to do?
And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a (i) cause? (i) For his father's sending was a just occasion, and also he felt himself inwardl...
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 th...
DISCOURSE: 301 DAVID’S VINDICATION OF HIMSELF 1 Samuel 17:29 . And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? IT is impossible fo...
And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? Is there not a cause? - הלוא דבר הוא halo dabar hu. I believe the meaning is what sever...
What have I now done? Is there not a cause— What have I done, I have only just spoken a word. Houbigant.
And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? - i:e., Is there not forc...
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 16:14-2...
Is there not a cause? — David answers his jealous and over-bearing elder brother with all gentleness and forbearance, but he does not cease to make...
CHAPTER XXIV. DAVID'S CONFLICT WITH GOLIATH 1 Samuel 17:1-58 . THESE irrepressible Philistines were never long recovering from their disasters...
David Unawed by the Giant 1 Samuel 17:17-30 At this juncture David arrived in the camp, sent by Jesse to inquire after the welfare of his three...
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 s...
(28) And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hi...
And David said, what have I now done ?.... That is criminal and blameworthy; as if he should say, I have only expressed an indignation against this...
And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a cause? Ver. 29. What have I now done? ] sc., Worthy of so great blame: thus he answereth...
David said, Is there not a cause? Of my thus speaking? Is this giant invincible? Is our God unable to oppose him, and subdue him? However, David is...
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 de...
David Comes to the Camp of Israel. B. C. 1060....
Either, 1. Of my coming; my father sent me on an errand. Or rather, 2. Of my thus speaking: is there not reason in what I say? Is this giant invi...
David Arrives At The Battlefield And Is Appalled That ‘This Uncircumcised Philistine' Dares To Defy the Armies Of The Living God ( 1 Samuel 17:20-30...
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, an...
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...
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 s...
Is there not a cause. The giant sin of England Surely there was a cause. David’s was not intemperate zeal, nor his anger causeless or unprovoke...
EXPOSITION 1 Samuel 17:20-9 He came to the trench. More probably the barricade, or outer circle of defence for their camp, made of their...
David Sent to the Camp
And David said, in a quiet, but very decided denial of the wrong charged to him, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? He surely had a right...
A cause — Of my thus speaking? Is this giant invincible? Is our God unable to oppose him, and subdue him? However David is not deterred from his un...
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?