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1 Samuel 17:43
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Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- CondensedParallel Translations
Disse, pois, o filisteu a Davi: Sou eu algum co, para tu vires a mim com paus? E o filisteu pelos seus deuses amaldioou a Davi.
Disse, pois, o filisteu a Davi: Sou eu algum co, para tu vires a mim com paus? E o filisteu amaldioou a Davi, pelos seus deuses.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Am: 1 Samuel 24:14, 2 Samuel 3:8, 2 Samuel 9:8, 2 Samuel 16:9, 2 Kings 8:13
cursed: Genesis 27:29, Numbers 22:6, Numbers 22:11, Numbers 22:12, Judges 9:27, Proverbs 26:2
Reciprocal: Judges 4:21 - took 1 Samuel 14:12 - Come up to us 2 Samuel 16:5 - cursed Nehemiah 4:2 - feeble Psalms 12:3 - tongue Zechariah 11:7 - staves
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Philistine said unto David, [am] I a dog?.... Truly David did not think him much better, because of his impudence, impurity, and barking blasphemy against God, and the armies of Israel; the Targum is,
"am I a despised dog?''
verily he was by David:
that thou comest to me with staves? or with a staff, the plural for the singular, to beat him with it as a dog is beaten, and as David used to beat his dog with, while keeping his father's sheep, when the dog he had with him did not do his business as he should; he says nothing of his sling and stones, they being out of sight:
and the Philistine cursed David by his gods: by Dagon and others; he made an imprecation by them, and wished the greatest evils might befall him from them; he devoted him to them, and doubted not to make a sacrifice of him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 43. Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? — It is very likely that Goliath did not perceive the sling, which David might have kept coiled up within his hand.
Cursed David by his gods. — Prayed his gods to curse him. This long parley between David and Goliath is quite in the style of those times. A Hindoo sometimes in a fit of anger says to his enemy, The goddess Kalee shall devour thee! May Doorga destroy thee! Homer's heroes have generally an altercation before they engage; and sometimes enter into geographical and genealogical discussions, and vaunt and scold most contemptibly.
