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FREE IN ISRAEL - In all the other passages (fifteen) where this word
occurs, it means free, as opposed to being a slave (Deuteronomy 15:12,
Deuteronomy 15:18, etc.) Here it may imply a freedom from al...
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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)
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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...
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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6....
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David's errand to the camp
12 31. This section is not found in the Vatican MS. of the Sept. On
the difficulties it presents, and the question of its genuineness see
Note VI. p. 241....
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_will give him his daughter_ Compare Caleb's offer, Joshua 15:16. Saul
procrastinated about fulfilling the promise, and imposed further
conditions (1 Samuel 18:17 ff.).
_make his father's house free_...
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AND MAKE HIS FATHER'S HOUSE FREE IN ISRAEL— This might be rendered,
_will enoble his father's house._ The Chaldee paraphrase has it, _and
will make his father's house free princes in Israel,_ enfranch...
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_David Hears of Goliath's Challenge._ 1 Samuel 17:12-27
12 Now David _was_ the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah,
whose name _was_ Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among
men _fo...
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_AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, HAVE YE SEEN THIS MAN THAT IS COME UP?
SURELY TO DEFY ISRAEL IS HE COME UP: AND IT SHALL BE, THAT THE MAN WHO
KILLETH HIM, THE KING WILL ENRICH HIM WITH GREAT RICHES, AND...
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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:
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FREE] from forced labour or contributions: cp. 1 Samuel 8:11....
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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...
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AND MAKE HIS FATHER’S HOUSE FREE IN ISRAEL. — Among the lavish
offers Saul made to the one who should vanquish the giant was this,
“The family of the successful combatant should be free in Israel.”
Th...
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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...
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DAVID UNAWED BY THE GIANT
1 Samuel 17:17
At this juncture David arrived in the camp, sent by Jesse to inquire
after the welfare of his three elder sons, who had followed Saul to
the war. He also brou...
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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...
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And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up?
surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, [that] the man
who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and...
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_Tribute, and all public charges, which may be burdensome. (Calmet)
--- It does not appear that these words are addressed to any one in
particular, nor that the king had authorized such a declaration....
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(23) And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion,
the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David hea...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID,.... To one another:
HAVE YE SEEN THIS MAN THAT IS COME UP? taken notice of him, and
observed him?
SURELY TO DEFY ISRAEL IS HE COME UP; to challenge them to fight with
him...
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And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up?
surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, [that] the man
who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and...
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1 Sam. 17:25. David won the king's daughter by victory over Goliath;
so Christ wins the church by victory over Satan....
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_The king will make his father's house free_ Free from all those
tributes and charges which either the court or the camp required. _Who
is this uncircumcised Philistine?_ &c. Thus David expresses a hi...
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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...
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DAVID SENT TO THE CAMP...
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And the men of Israel said, after the manner of men discussing a great
calamity, HAVE YE SEEN THIS MAN THAT IS COME UP? SURELY TO DEFY ISRAEL
IS HE COME UP, to challenge them to single combat with a c...
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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...
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12-30 Jesse little thought of sending his son to the army at that
critical juncture; but the wise God orders actions and affairs, so as
to serve his designs. In times of general formality and lukewar...
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It is observable, that Saul in his great distress doth not encourage
himself in God, nor seek his counsel or favour by prayers and
sacrifices, but expects relief from men only. This was one effect and...
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1 Samuel 17:25 men H376 Israel H3478 said H559 (H8799) seen H7200
(H8804) man H376 up H5927 ...
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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).
Central to the last passage was that Goliath defied ‘...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 17:25 HAVE YOU SEEN? “You” is plural;
the question is not directed toward David. ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD.
To David, this battle is fundamentally spiritual (see vv....
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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 origin. T...
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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 wagons (see on 1 Samuel 10:22).
Strictly the word means a _wag...
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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...
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1 Samuel 18:17; Ezra 7:24; Joshua 15:16; Matthew 17:26; Revelation
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Free — Free from all those tributes and charges which either the
court or the camp required....