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Verse 1 Samuel 17:4. _THERE WENT OUT A CHAMPION_] Our word _champion_
comes from _campus_, the field; Campio _est enim ille qui pugnat in_
campo, _hoc_ _est, in castris_, "_Champion_ is he, properly,...
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A CHAMPION - literally, “a man between the two camps:” i. e., one
who did not fight in the ranks like an ordinary soldier, but came
forth into the space between the hostile camps to challenge the
migh...
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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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CHAMPION. Hebrew. _'ish-habbenayivl_. "the man between the two
[hosts]", or, the duellist. This accords with the subscription of
Psalms 8 (see note there)
_ Muth-labben =_ the death of the man between...
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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...
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GOLIATH, OF GATH— When Joshua rooted the Anakims out of the land of
Canaan, several of them fled to this city of Gath: See Joshua 11:22.
We have undoubted evidence from the best writers, that there ha...
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_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...
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_AND THERE WENT OUT A CHAMPION OUT OF THE CAMP OF THE PHILISTINES,
NAMED GOLIATH, OF GATH, WHOSE HEIGHT WAS SIX CUBITS AND A SPAN._
There went out a champion - Hebrew, a man between two; i:e., a pers...
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17:4 champion (c-6) Lit. 'middle-man;' and so ver. 23....
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SIX CUBITS AND A SPAN] about 9½ ft....
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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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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 THE PHILISTINES STOOD.... — Conder, in his _Tent Work in
Palestine,_ writing on the spot, gives us a vivid picture of the scene
of the well-known encounter between David and the giant Philistine:...
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וַ יֵּצֵ֤א אִֽישׁ ־הַ בֵּנַ֨יִם֙ מִ
מַּחֲנֹ֣ו
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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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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...
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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 there (a) went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.
(a) Between the two camps....
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Base-born. Hebrew, "of two sons," or of obscure origin. (Cornelius a
Lapide) --- His parents are no where specified, as Arapha is not, as
some pretend, the name of his mother, but denotes that he was...
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(3) And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and
Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley
between them. (4) And there went out a champion out of the camp of...
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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 THERE WENT OUT A CHAMPION OUT OF THE CAMP OF THE PHILISTINES,....
Or a "middle person", or a man "between two" y; meaning either one
that went and stood between the two armies of Israel and the
Ph...
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And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.
Ver. 4. _And there went out a champion._] _a_ _Intermedius,
sequest...
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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 PLAYS FOR SAUL...
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And there went out a champion out of the camp of the philistines, one
of the few descendants of the giant race left by Joshua, Joshua 11:22,
NAMED GOLIATH, OF GATH, WHOSE HEIGHT WAS SIX CUBITS AND A S...
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Goliath's Defiance of Israel...
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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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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....
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A CHAMPION, Heb. _a man between two_, either because he used to come
forth, and stand between the two armies; or because he moved that the
business should be decided between two, whereof he would be o...
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1 Samuel 17:4 champion H376 H1143 out H3318 (H8799) camp H4264
Philistines H6430 named H8034 Goliath H1555 Gath...
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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...
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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 17:4 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...
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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 _...
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ADVANCE OF DAVID IN REPUTATION BY THE SLAUGHTER OF GOLIATH (1 Samuel
17:1.).
EXPOSITION
GOLIATH'S DEFIANCE OF ISRAEL ...
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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 Chronicles 11:23; 1 Chronicles 20:4; 1 Chronicles 20:5; 1 Samuel
17:23;...
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Six cubits — At least, nine feet, nine inches high. And this is not
strange; for besides the giants mentioned in Scripture, Herodotus,
Diodorus Siculus, and Pliny, make mention of persons seven cubits...