1 Samuel 17:16
And the Philistine draweth nigh, morning and evening, and stationeth himself forty days.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
In Context
15and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
Cross References
Matthew 4:2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.
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 →