Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 17:45

45 Dàwèi duì Fēilìshì rén shuō , nǐ lái gōngjī wǒ , shì kào zhe dāo qiāng hé tóng jǐ . wǒ lái gōngjī nǐ , shì kào zhe wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá de míng , jiù shì nǐ suǒ nù mà daìlǐng Yǐsèliè jūnduì de shén .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 17:45 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 17:45

Then said David to the Philistine
In answer to the contempt he held him in, and to the threatening words he gave him:

thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield;
the word for "shield" is not the same with that so rendered, ( 1 Samuel 17:41 ) ; which his armourbearer carried before him, but with that translated a "target", which was between his shoulders, ( 1 Samuel 17:6 ) ; however, they were all weapons of war, either defensive or offensive:

but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied;
the Lord of all hosts, in heaven and in earth in general, and in particular the God of the armies of Israel; which he was at the head of, led on, protected and defended, having a kind and merciful regard unto them, and which this Philistine had defied, reproached, and blasphemed; and now David was come, by a commission from this great Jehovah, to vindicate his honour, and to avenge his people on him: he had asked for a man, and now the Lord of hosts, as the Jews ^F12 observe, comes forth as a man of war, for the battle was his, as in ( 1 Samuel 17:47 ) ; and David was his messenger, and came in his name, and was the man into whose hands he should be given.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 42. 2.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 17:45 In-Context

43 Fēilìshì rén duì Dàwèi shuō , nǐ ná zhàng dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái , wǒ qǐ shì gǒu ne . Fēilìshì rén jiù zhǐ zhe zìjǐ de shén zhòuzǔ Dàwèi .

44 Fēilìshì rén yòu duì Dàwèi shuō , lái ba . wǒ jiāng nǐde ròu gĕi kōng zhōng de fēiniǎo , tiānyĕ de zǒushòu chī .

45 Dàwèi duì Fēilìshì rén shuō , nǐ lái gōngjī wǒ , shì kào zhe dāo qiāng hé tóng jǐ . wǒ lái gōngjī nǐ , shì kào zhe wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá de míng , jiù shì nǐ suǒ nù mà daìlǐng Yǐsèliè jūnduì de shén .

46 Jīnrì Yēhéhuá bìjiāng nǐ jiāo zaì wǒ shǒu lǐ . wǒ bì shā nǐ , zhǎn nǐde tóu , yòu jiāng Fēilìshì jūn bīng de shī shǒu gĕi kōng zhong de fēiniǎo , dì shàng de yĕshòu chī , shǐ pǔ tiān xià de rén dōu zhīdào Yǐsèliè zhōng yǒu shén .

47 Yòu shǐ zhè zhòngrén zhīdào Yēhéhuá shǐ rén déshèng , bú shì yòng dāo yòng qiāng , yīnwei zhēng zhàn de shēng baì quán zaìhu Yēhéhuá . tā bìjiāng nǐmen jiāo zaì wǒmen shǒu lǐ .