And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Philistine said to David, come to me,.... He seems to have stood still, disdaining: to take another step towards such a pitiful combatant, and therefore bids him come up to him, and he would…
Adam Clarke
Come to me, and I will give thy flesh - He intended, as soon as he could lay hold on him, to pull him to pieces.
We are now coming near this famous combat, and have in these verses the preparations and remonstrances made on both sides.
I. The preparations made on both sides for the encounter. The Philistine was…
Cambridge Bible
I will give thy flesh, &c. Compare Hector's defiance of Ajax in Hom. Il.XIII. 831:
"The flesh
Shall glut the dogs and carrion birds of Troy."
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