If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
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Gill's Exposition
If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants,.... For which it does not appear he had any commission or authority to say; nor did the Philistines think themselves…
Adam Clarke
Then will we be your servants - Of this stipulation we hear nothing farther.
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…
Cambridge Bible
then will we be your servants Compare the agreement between the Romans and Albans about the combat of the Horatii and Curiatii, "that the nation whose citizens conquered in the combat should rule the…