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John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 17:31
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 (<091711>1 Samuel 17:11) with the following is very clear and consistent, as also is (<091750>1 Samuel 17:50) left out in the same version; and likewise the last four of the chapter, (<091755>1 Samuel 17:55-58), and five with which the next begins, (<091801>1 Samuel 18:1-5).
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