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1 Samuel 17:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. "

1 Samuel 17:16

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14 David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.

15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

16 The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

17 Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

18 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

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1 Samuel 27:7

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"The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months."

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1 Samuel 29:11

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"So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel."

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1 Chronicles 11:13

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"He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines."

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2 Samuel 23:13

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"Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim."

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Judges 15:20

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"He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines."

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2 Samuel 5:25

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"David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer."

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1 Samuel 17:1

"Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephesdammim."

1 Samuel 17:2

"Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines."

1 Samuel 17:3

"The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them."

1 Samuel 17:4

"A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out."

1 Samuel 17:5

"He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze."

1 Samuel 17:6

"He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders."

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