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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And the king said, inquire thou whose son the stripling is. Still the question is the same, being very desirous of knowing of what family he was, for the reason before given; see Gill on Sa1 17:55.
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Here is 1. The engagement between the two champions, Sa1 17:48. To this engagement the Philistine advanced with a great deal of state and gravity; if he must encounter a pigmy, yet it shall be with…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the stripling This word is the diminutive of strip, and like slip, scion, &c. means a youth, as it were a strip from the parent stem. The Heb. word, which is found again only in 1Sa 20:22, signifies…