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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 17 This chapter relates how the armies of Israel, and of the Philistines, prepared for battle, and where, 1 Samuel 17:1, describes a champion of the Philistines, who defied the armies of Israel, 1 Samuel 17:4, and while he was so doing, it informs us that David came into the camp, and he heard his words, and signified to one and another his inclination to fight with...
John Gill
And I went out after him,.... Whether a lion or a bear; but mention after being made of his beard, a lion rather is meant: and smote him; with his fist, or rather with his shepherd's staff: and delivered [it] out of his mouth; snatched it out from thence, or obliged him to drop it, by beating him: and when he arose against me; after he had let go the lamb, threatening to tear him in pieces for...
Matthew Henry
David is the man whom God now delights to honour, for he is a man after his own heart. We read in the foregoing chapter how, after he was anointed, Providence made him famous in the court; we read in this chapter how Providence made him much more famous in the camp, and, by both, not only marked him for a great man, but fitted him for the throne for which he was designed. In the court he was only...