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1 Samuel 17:21

1 Samuel 17:21
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For Israel and all the Philistines had put the battle in array,.... Both sides prepared for it, and drew up in line of battle:

army against army; rank against rank, battalion against battalion, the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Samuel 17:12-30

Forty days the two armies lay encamped facing one another, each advantageously posted, but neither forward to engage. Either they were parleying and treating of an accommodation or they were waiting…