When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
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Gill's Exposition
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine,.... For they were delivered with such a tone and strength of voice, as to be heard very generally, at least by many, and which soon was…
Adam Clarke
Saul and all Israel - were dismayed - They saw no man able to accept the challenge.
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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