1 Samuel 17:10
The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
World English Bible
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In Context
11When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:25The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
2 Samuel 21:21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
2 Kings 19:4It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
Job 40:9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 17:2-12
Goliath's Challenge to Israel. ( b. c. 1060.) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between… Read the whole commentary →