And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day,.... Or "reproach" (s) them; that is, should they not accept his challenge, and send down a man to fight with them, he should then upbraid…
Adam Clarke
I defy - אני חרפתי ani cheraphti, "I strip and make bare," the armies of Israel; for none dared to fight him. From the Dhunoor Veda Shastra it appears that, among the Hindoos, it was common, before…
It was not long ago that the Philistines were soundly beaten, and put to the worse, before Israel, and they would have been totally routed if Saul's rashness had not prevented; but here we have them…
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 Eteocles…
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