1 Samuel 17:20 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 17:20

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.

BSB

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ASV

And David rose up 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 place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

KJV

And David rose up 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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The trench - Rather, “the wagons,” which were all put together in the camp so as to form a kind of bulwark or fortification (see 1Sa 26:5, 1Sa 26:7). Here David left his “carriage” 1Sa 17:22, i. e., the things which he had carried, “his things” as we should say, or baggage (translated stuff in 1Sa 10:22; 1Sa 25:13; 1Sa 30:24). There seems to have been an officer (“the keeper,” 1Sa 17:22) in the Hebrew army whose charge it was to guard the baggage.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

David left the sheep with a keeper--This is the only instance in which the hired shepherd is distinguished from the master or one of his family. trench--some feeble attempt at a rampart. It appears (see Margin) to have been formed by a line of carts or chariots, which, from the earliest times, was the practice of nomad people.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם	vai.yash.Kem	and he rose early	H7925 →
דָּוִ֜ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
בַּבֹּ֗קֶר	ba.Bo.ker	in the morning	H1242 →
וַיִּטֹּ֤שׁ	vai.yi.Tosh	and he left	H5203 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַצֹּאן֙	ha.tzoN	the flock	H6629 →
עַל־	'al-	with	H5921 →
שֹׁמֵ֔ר	sho.Mer	a watchman	H8104 →
וַיִּשָּׂ֣א	vai.yi.Sa'	and he lifted up	H5375 →
וַיֵּ֔לֶךְ	vai.Ye.lekh	and he went	H1980 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
צִוָּ֖הוּ	tzi.Va.hu	he had commanded him	H6680 →
יִשָׁ֑י	yi.Shai	Jesse	H3448 →
וַיָּבֹא֙	vai.ya.Vo'	and he came	H935 →
הַמַּעְגָּ֔לָה	ha.ma'.Ga.lah	the camp towards	H4570 →
וְהַחַ֗יִל	ve.ha.Cha.yil	and the army	H2428 →
הַיֹּצֵא֙	hai.yo.Tze'	which was going out	H3318 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמַּ֣עֲרָכָ֔ה	ha.Ma.'a.ra.Khah	the battle line	H4634 →
וְהֵרֵ֖עוּ	ve.he.Re.'u	and they shouted a war cry	H7321 →
בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃	ba.mil.cha.Mah	in the battle	H4421 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Luke 19:43
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
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- Luke 21:20–24
  But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
- Isaiah 29:1–4
  Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
Through
1 Samuel 17:28
Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep…
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- Matthew 10:36
  A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
- Genesis 37:8
  “Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
- Genesis 37:11
  And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
- Genesis 37:4
  When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
- Proverbs 18:19
  An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
Through
1 Samuel 26:5
Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:55
  As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,”…

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