John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 17:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, etc.] Twice a day he came near the camp, within the hearing of it. The Jews f364 say, he took those seasons on purpose to disturb them in reading their “Shema”, or “hear, O Israel”, etc. and saying their prayers morning and evening: and presented himself forty days; Successively, before the armies of Israel, daring them to send down a man to fight with him, and reproaching them for their cowardice in not doing it.

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