1 Samuel 17:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

1 Samuel 17:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 4:2
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-30)

Forty days the two armies lay encamped facing one another, each advantageously posted, but neither forward to engage. Either they were parleying and treating of an accommodation or they were waiting for recruits; and perhaps there were frequent skirmishes between small detached parties. All this while, twice a day, morning and evening, did the insulting champion appear in the field and repeat his…