Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 17:16
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
16. And the Philistine, &c.] This remark resumes the narrative of vv, 4 11, with the additional information that Goliath’s defiance was repeated for a considerable time, and so prepares the way for what follows.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening,…. Twice a day he came near the camp, within the hearing of it. The Jews w say, he took those seasons on purpose to disturb them in reading their “Shema”, or “hear, O Israel”, c. and saying their prayers morning and evening:
and presented himself forty days Successively, before the armies of Israel, daring them to send down a man to fight with him, and reproaching them for their cowardice in not doing it.
w T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 42. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(16) And presented himself forty days.Wordsworth, following Augustine, sees here a reference to the temptation of the true David, who was in the wilderness forty days, tempted of the devil. In David is Christ . . . do not, therefore, read this history of David as if it did not concern you who are members of Christ. (Aug. in Psalms 143).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
(16) And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Surely the Lord overruled the desire of this giant, and somehow or other overawed his mind, to restrain him from attacking Israel: otherwise he, and his army at his heels, would not have rested satisfied with this parade of mere threats, for forty days together. Reader! remark this, as you go on in your spiritual warfare. Have you never found the enemy advancing, threatening, and as the Psalmist saith, being ready to swallow you up: and yet deliverance hath come, unexpected, and unthought of? Psa 56:1-2 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
1Sa 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Ver. 16. And presented himself forty days. ] Braving and daring any one of them to a duel, which none durst adventure on till David came, whose victory is hereby made the more famous.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
forty. The number significant of probation. App-10.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
forty days: Mat 4:2, Luk 4:2
Reciprocal: 1Ki 20:29 – seven days