And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
For forty days the armies faced each other, neither moving, while Goliath bellowed his challenge twice daily and grew proud in his defiance, and Israel grew timid in theirs. God was ripening him for ruin and preparing to make Israel's rescue shine the brighter. All this time David kept his father's sheep, content in obscurity after his service at court, until Providence set him in the field to seize the laurel no other Israelite dared reach for.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 17:12-30
And he turned from him towards another,.... From his brother Eliab, to another person right against him, and directed his discourse to him: and spake after the same manner: as in Sa1 17:26; inquiring what encouragement would he given to a man that should attempt to kill the Philistine, and expressing his concern to hear the armies of the living God defied by such a...
1Sa 17:29-30 David answered very modestly, and so as to put the scorn of his reprover to shame: “What have I done, then? It was only a word” - a very allowable inquiry certainly. He then turned from him (Eliab) to another who was standing by; and having repeated his previous words, he received the same answer from the people.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 17:29-30