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This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

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For God's Glory Alone

Commentators unanimously highlight that David's purpose was not personal honor but God's reputation. He explicitly states the victory is so "all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." As Matthew Henry notes, David gloried in his humble means so that the victory could only be ascribed to the Lord alone.

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1 Samuel

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Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On 1 Samuel 17:46

19th Century

Bishop

I will smite you. —David reiterated to the Philistine, as he had done to Saul, his certainty of victory, but in the same breath said that …

John Gill

John Gill

On 1 Samuel 17:46

17th Century

Pastor

This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hands
Of which he was assured by divine inspiration, by the impulse of…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On 1 Samuel 17:40–47

17th Century

Minister

The complacency and presumption of fools destroy them. Nothing can excel the humility, faith, and piety which appear in David's words. He expressed…

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