1 Samuel 17:22

David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

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In The King James Version

And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

In Context

21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

23As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:14He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Judges 18:15They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

1 Samuel 30:21David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

Matthew 10:12As you enter into the household, greet it.

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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