The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
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The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
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And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
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And the Philistine said: 'I do taunt the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.'
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 17:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 17:25-26 The 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 make his father’s house free in Israel.” David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
- 1 Samuel 17:36 Your 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.”
- 1 Samuel 17:45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- Numbers 23:7-8 He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel. How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
- 2 Samuel 21:21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
- Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
- Job 40:9-12 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Psalms 9:4-5 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously. You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
- Jeremiah 9:23 Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
- Daniel 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- 2 Samuel 23:9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, hand to hand.
Or, hand to hand.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the…
1Sa 17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Ver. 10. I defy the armies of Israel.] This man’s insolence and self-confidence do plainly prove his heart to be nothing else but a piece of proud flesh. But God will shortly cut off those arrogant lips, and the "tongue that speaketh proud things." {Psa 12:3-4}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of…
And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day,.... Or "reproach" (s) them; that is, should they not accept his challenge, and send down a man to fight with them, he should then upbraid them with cowardice; and now he disdained them, as if there was not a man among them that dared to encounter with him:
give me a man that we may fight together; and so decide the controversy between us; such as were those duels fought between Paris and Menelaus in the Trojan war, and between the Lacedemonians and the Argives in the times of Orthryades, and between the Athenians and Romans by the Horatii and Curiatii, as Grotius observes.
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(s) "exprobravo". V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "probro affeci", Tigurine version; "probro affecero", Junius & Tremellius.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. I defy] אני חרפתי ani cheraphti, "I…
Verse 10. I defy] אני חרפתי ani cheraphti, "I strip and make bare," the armies of Israel; for none dared to fight him. From the Dhunoor Veda Shastra it appears that, among the Hindoos, it was common, before the commencement of an engagement, to challenge the enemy by throwing out some terms of abuse, similar to those used by Goliath. We find this also in Homer: his heroes scold each other heartily before they begin to fight. See on 1Sa 17:43.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. I defy the armies of Israel this day…
10. I defy the armies of Israel this day — Hebrew, I have reproached the armies of Israel this day. He heaps upon them scorn and contempt for their supposed inability to cope with a single warrior.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I challenge the ranks of Israel
I challenge the ranks of Israel
"I challenge the army of Israel"
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all Israel
This refers to the Israelite soldiers who were there.
they were discouraged and greatly afraid
The words "discouraged" and "greatly afraid" mean basically the same thing and emphasize the intensity of their fear. (See: Doublet)
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Philistines
Israel
Saul (OT)
fear
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