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Webster's Bible Translation

1 Samuel 17:16

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Championship;   Jesse;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Days;   Forty Days;   Home;   Periods and Numbers;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Number;   Philistia, philistines;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Giant;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Goliath ;   Jesse ;   Numbers as Symbols;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Goliath;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Forty;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Goliath;   Morning;   Number;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Forty, the Number;   Numbers and Numerals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Every morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand.
Hebrew Names Version
The Pelishti drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
King James Version
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Lexham English Bible
Now the Philistine came forward early and late, and he took his stand for forty days.
English Standard Version
For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
New Century Version
For forty days the Philistine came out every morning and evening and stood before the Israelite army.
New English Translation
Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.
Amplified Bible
The Philistine [Goliath] came out morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.
New American Standard Bible
And the Philistine came forward morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Philistim drew neere in the morning, and euening, and continued fourtie daies.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the Philistine approached, morning and evening, for forty days and took his stand.
Contemporary English Version
Goliath came out and gave his challenge every morning and every evening for forty days.
Complete Jewish Bible
Meanwhile, the P'lishti approached with his challenge every morning and evening for forty days.
Darby Translation
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Philistine came out every morning and evening and stood before the Israelite army. Goliath insulted Israel like this for 40 days.
George Lamsa Translation
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself for forty days.
Good News Translation
Goliath challenged the Israelites every morning and evening for forty days.
Literal Translation
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the Philistyne stepte forth early in the mornynge and at euen, and stode there fortye dayes.
American Standard Version
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Bible in Basic English
And the Philistine came near every morning and evening for forty days.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Philistine came foorth in the morning and euening, and continued fourtie dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
King James Version (1611)
And the Philistine drewe neere, morning and euening, and presented himselfe forty dayes.
English Revised Version
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Berean Standard Bible
For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the Filistey cam forth in the morewtid, and euentid; and stood `bi fourti daies.
Young's Literal Translation
And the Philistine draweth nigh, morning and evening, and stationeth himself forty days.
Update Bible Version
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
World English Bible
The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
New King James Version
And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening.
New Living Translation
For forty days, every morning and evening, the Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army.
New Life Bible
The Philistine came out and showed himself morning and evening for forty days.
New Revised Standard
For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, - and presented himself forty days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Revised Standard Version
For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
THE MESSAGE
Each morning and evening for forty days, Goliath took his stand and made his speech.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.

Contextual Overview

12 Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul. 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went [and] followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle [were] Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. 16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. 17 And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; 18 And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of [their] thousand, and see how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge. 19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were] in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. 20 And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. 21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forty days: Matthew 4:2, Luke 4:2

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:29 - seven days

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living animal that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 17:6
And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall proceed from thee.
Genesis 17:10
This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee; Every male-child among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:14
And the uncircumcised male-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:26
In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.
Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with [their] face towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Romans 9:9
For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening,.... Twice a day he came near the camp, within the hearing of it. The Jews w say, he took those seasons on purpose to disturb them in reading their "Shema", or "hear, O Israel", c. 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.

w T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 42. 2.


 
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