1 Samuel 17:18

and carry these ten cheeses to the captain of the thousand, and visit thy brethren to see how they are, and take a pledge of them.

Darby Translation

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 David his son, Take, I pray, for thy brethren, this ephah of parched [corn] and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren;

19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel [were] in the valley of terebinths, fighting against the Philistines.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:7And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other [after] their welfare, and went into the tent.

1 Samuel 16:20And Jesse took an ass with bread, and a flask of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son to Saul.

1 Samuel 30:21And David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and whom they had left behind at the torrent Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him; and David drew near to the people and saluted them.

Esther 2:11And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

Acts 15:36But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are getting on.

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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