What Hope Does Scripture Offer for Anxious Overthinking?
Jennifer Slattery
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1 Samuel 17:56
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The king said, "You inquire whose son the youth is."
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1 Samuel 17:56 Meaning and Commentary
1 Samuel 17:56
And the king said, inquire thou whose son the stripling [is].
] Still the question is the same, being very desirous of knowing of what family he was, for the reason before given, (See Gill on 1 Samuel 17:55).
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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1 Samuel 17:56 In-Context
54
Then David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.
55
Now when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this young man?" And Abner said, "By your life, O king, I do not know."
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The king said, "You inquire whose son the youth is."
57
So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine's head in his hand.
58
Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."
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