1 Samuel 17:15 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 17:15

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth–lehem.

KJV

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ASV

Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth-lehem.

WEB

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

YLT

and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.

DBT

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

About this book

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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8 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 18:2
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
1 Samuel 16:19
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
Psalms 131:1
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Psalms 78:70
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

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Now concerning this champion observe, 1. He was of the sons of Anak, who at Gath kept their ground in Joshua's time ( Josh. xi. 22 ), and kept up a race of giants there, of which Goliath was one, and, it is probable, one of the largest.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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