1 Samuel 17:29 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 17:29

And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

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ASV

And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

WEB

“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

YLT

And David saith, `What have I done now? is it not a word?'

DBT

And David said, What have I now done? Was it not laid upon me?

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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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1 Peter 3:9
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Genesis 31:26
And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
1 Samuel 26:18
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
1 Chronicles 27:18
Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
1 Samuel 29:8
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

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This conquest of his own passion was in some respects more honourable than his conquest of Goliath. He that hath rule over his own spirit is better than the mighty. It was no time for David to quarrel with his brother when the Philistines were upon them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Is this giant invincible? Is our God unable to oppose him, and subdue him? However David is not deterred from his undertaking, by the hard words of Eliab.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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