2And 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.
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And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)It was not long ago that the Philistines were soundly beaten, and put to the worse, before Israel, and they would have been totally routed if Saul’s rashness had not prevented; but here we have them making head again. Observe, I. How they defied Israel with their armies , 1 Sam. 17:1. They made a descent upon the Israelites’ country, and possessed themselves, as it should seem, of some part of it,…
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