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1 KaSamuweli 17:25

25 Athi amaSirayeli, Niyibonile na le ndoda inyukayo? Kuba inyuka isiza kungcikiva amaSirayeli; yothi indoda ethe yayibulala, ityetyiswe ngukumkani ngobutyebi obukhulu, ayinike intombi yakhe, ayenze indlu kayise ikhululeke kwaSirayeli.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Championship;   Daughter;   Decision;   Jesse;   Marriage;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Philistia, philistines;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Merab;   Taxes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Merab;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Giant;   King;   Merab;   Samuel, Books of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Goliath;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Me'rab;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assessor;   Defy;   Government;   Joel (2);   King;   Merab;   Tax;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king: 1 Samuel 18:17-27, Joshua 15:16, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:17, Revelation 3:5, Revelation 3:12, Revelation 3:21

free in Israel: Ezra 7:24, Matthew 17:26

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:7 - defy Israel Judges 1:12 - And Caleb Judges 10:18 - he shall be 1 Samuel 17:10 - I defy 1 Samuel 17:27 - So shall it 1 Samuel 22:14 - the king's 2 Samuel 5:8 - Whosoever 2 Samuel 21:21 - defied 1 Chronicles 11:6 - Whosoever Esther 6:3 - What honour Daniel 2:48 - a great Daniel 5:7 - be clothed Matthew 17:25 - of their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of Israel said,.... To one another:

have ye seen this man that is come up? taken notice of him, and observed him?

surely to defy Israel is he come up; to challenge them to fight with him, and upbraid them with cowardice that they did not:

and it shall be [that] the man who killeth him; this, and what follows, they said to encourage any person to engage with him, though none of them cared to encounter him themselves:

the king will enrich him with great riches; give him a large gratuity, make a present of a great sum of money to him:

and will give him his daughter to be his wife, in like manner as Caleb promised to give his daughter in marriage to the person that should take Kirjathsepher, Judges 1:12;

and make his father's house free in Israel; from all tributes, taxes, levies, impositions, king's service, and duty; or, as the Targum,

"make his father's house freemen, nobles;''

raise it to the rank of nobility.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Free in Israel - In all the other passages (fifteen) where this word occurs, it means free, as opposed to being a slave (Deuteronomy 15:12-13, Deuteronomy 15:18, etc.) Here it may imply a freedom from all such services and burdens as are spoken of in 1 Samuel 8:11-17.


 
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