And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
Goliath stalked forward with all his brass and iron grandeur; David ran lightly toward him with one aim only, to strike true. See how swiftly the mighty fall: while the giant prepared his stroke, David's stone found the one gap in his armor, sank into his forehead, and in a twinkling brought him down, a small thing, but God's providence made it sufficient, and life went out as easily as it had come in.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 17:48-58
Whose son art thou, thou young man? - That Saul should not know David with whom he had treated a little before, and even armed him for the combat, and that he should not know who his father was, though he had sent to his father for permission to David to reside constantly with him, (Sa1 16:22), is exceedingly strange!
1Sa 17:57-58 When David returned “from the slaughter of the Philistine,” i.e., after the defeat of Goliath, and when Abner, who probably went as commander to meet the brave hero and congratulate him upon his victory, had brought him to Saul, the king addressed the same question to David, who immediately gave him the information he desired.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 17:57-58