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Saul's Practical Inquiry
Commentator John Gill clarifies that King Saul's repeated question about David's father was not due to forgetfulness. Rather, Saul was urgently seeking to identify David's family to fulfill the royal promise he had made to grant significant rewards and status to the family of the man who defeated Goliath.
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1 Samuel
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John Gill
On 1 Samuel 17:56
17th Century
Pastor
And the king said, inquire you whose son the stripling [is] .
] Still the question is the same, being very desirous …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Samuel 17:48–58
17th Century
Minister
See how frail and uncertain life is, even when a man thinks himself best fortified; how quickly, how easily, and by how small a matter, the passage…