21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
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I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-25)God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and that is the horse, especially the horse that is prepared against the day of battle and is serviceable to man at a time when he has more than ordinary occasion for his service. It seems, there was, in…
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