1 Samuel 17:31

“And when the words were heard which David spake, etc.] To one, and to another, and these reported to other persons, and so they went from one to another through many hands: they rehearsed [them] before Saul; coming to the ears of some of his courtiers and counsellors, or officers about him, they told him what such an one had said: and he sent for him; to his tent or pavilion where he was, to talk with him on this subject. The whole of (<091711>1 Samuel 17:11-31) is wanting in the Septuagint version, according to the Vatican exemplar; and these “twenty” verses are thought, by some f372, to be an interpolation; and it must be owned there are difficulties in them, and that the connection of…”

“sent for him: Heb. took him, Pro 22:29; The preceding twenty verses, from the Sa1 17:12 to the Sa1 17:31 inclusive, the Sa1 17:41, and from the Sa1 17:54 to the end of this chapter, with the first Sa1 18:1 and the Sa1 18:9, 10th, 11th, Sa1 18:17, 18th, and 19th, of chapter 18, are all wanting in the Vatican copy of the LXX; and they are supposed by Dr. Kennicott, and others, to be an interpolation. But, as Bp. Horsley observes, it appears, from many circumstances of the story, that David's combat with Goliath was many years prior to Saul's madness, and David's introduction to him as a musician. In the first place, David was quite a youth when he engaged with Goliath ( Sa1 17:33 and Sa1…”