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1 Samuel 17:18

And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

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In The King James Version

And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

In Context

17And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:7And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

1 Samuel 16:20And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

1 Samuel 30:21And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

Esther 2:11And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

Acts 15:36And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 17:13-31

David Comes to the Camp of Israel. ( b. c. 1060.) 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 15 But David went and… Read the whole commentary →

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