26<\/strong>. the living God<\/em> ] Jehovah as the one “living and true God” is contrasted with the idols of the heathen “which have no breath in their mouths.” Cp. Deu 5:26<\/span>, and esp. 2Ki 19:4<\/span>.<\/p>\n The living God – <\/B>This fine expression occurs first in Deuteronomy (marginal reference), and next in Jos 3:10<\/span>, and 2Ki 19:4<\/span>. We find it twice in the Psalms of David Psa 42:2<\/span>; Psa 84:2<\/span>, four times in the prophets, and frequently in the New Testament. It is generally in contrast to false gods (1Th 1:9<\/span>, etc.).<\/P> <\/p>\n Why should you all be thus dismayed at him? he is but a man, and that of an accursed race, a stranger and enemy to God, and no way able to stand before them who have the living and almighty God for their strength and refuge. <\/P> <\/p>\n And David spake to the men that stood by him<\/strong>,…. Who were next to him, looking upon the Philistine, and hearing what he said,<\/p>\n saying, what shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine<\/strong>,<\/p>\n and taketh away the reproach from Israel<\/strong>? which he asked not for the sake of the reward, but to observe the necessity there was of some man’s engaging with him, and killing him, or otherwise it would be a reproach to Israel, and to signify that he had an inclination to attempt it:<\/p>\n for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God<\/strong>? there were two things which provoked David, and raised indignation in him against this man; the one was, the character of the person that reproached, a Philistine, an uncircumcised person, a profane man, that had no true religion in him, an alien from the commonwealth of Israel, and a stranger to the covenants of promise; and the other was the persons whom he reproached, the armies of the living God, of the King of kings, and Lord of lords; and which in effect was reproaching the Lord himself, and which David, filled with zeal for God, and for his people, could not bear; and the consideration of these things animated him to engage with him, not doubting of success.<\/p>\n (26) And David spake . . .<\/strong>Very vividly does the historian here depict the scene that morning in the front: the dismayed soldiers of King Saul watching and listening to the boastful, impious words, as the giant champion shouted them across the narrow ravine which parted the outposts of the two armies; the enthusiastic shepherd boy, glowing with religious fervour, going from group to group of the advanced guard in the front, as they stood gloomily leaning on their spears, asking questions, and gleaning all the information possible about this insulter of his God.<\/p>\n 1Sa 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?<\/p>\n Ver. 26. What shall be done to the man?<\/strong> ] This he inquireth, non quia victus his pollicitationibus,<\/em> as Chrysostom saith; not because he was won by these promises, – for as he hardly credited them, so he never claimed them, – but moved with “a zeal of God,” and for the honour of his nation, he is willing to enter the contest, and wisheth that the king knew as much. David is not so much encouraged, as enraged against that dead dog, that thus proudly barked against the God of Israel.<\/p>\n men. Heb, ‘enosh. App-14. <\/p>\n defy = reproach. <\/p>\n God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. “Living”, always in contrast with idols. <\/p>\n reproach: 1Sa 11:2, Jos 7:8, Jos 7:9, 2Ki 19:4, Neh 5:9, Psa 44:13, Psa 74:18, Psa 79:12, Dan 9:16, Joe 2:19 <\/p>\n uncircumcised: 1Sa 17:36, 1Sa 14:6 <\/p>\n defy: 1Sa 17:10, Deu 5:26, Jer 10:10, 1Th 1:9, 1Jo 5:20 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 34:14 – uncircumcised Num 23:7 – defy Israel Jos 3:10 – living Jos 5:9 – I rolled away Jdg 14:3 – uncircumcised Jdg 15:18 – the uncircumcised 1Sa 17:8 – servants to Saul 1Sa 17:30 – manner 1Sa 17:45 – defied 1Sa 18:25 – foreskins 1Sa 31:4 – uncircumcised 2Sa 1:20 – uncircumcised 2Sa 21:21 – defied 2Sa 23:9 – defied 1Ch 10:4 – uncircumcised 1Ch 11:5 – Thou shalt 1Ch 20:7 – defied 2Ch 32:18 – to affright Neh 4:4 – turn Est 6:3 – What honour Psa 108:11 – go forth Isa 33:8 – he regardeth Isa 37:4 – to reproach Jer 23:36 – of the Eze 28:10 – the deaths Eze 31:18 – thou shalt Eze 32:19 – with Dan 6:26 – for Act 14:15 – the living 2Co 3:3 – the living Eph 2:11 – Uncircumcision 1Ti 3:15 – the living Heb 9:14 – the living Rev 7:2 – living<\/p>\n 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the {h} reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?<\/p>\n (h) This dishonour that he does to Israel.<\/p>\n David’s interest in God’s reputation 17:26-30<\/span><\/p>\n David seems to have considered himself capable of defeating Goliath from the first time he heard of Goliath’s insults to Yahweh. The fact that he referred to Yahweh as the "living God" (1Sa 17:26) shows David’s belief that Yahweh was still the same Person who could defeat present enemies as He had done in the past. His was the simple faith of a child. He had apparently heard about God’s promises to Moses and Joshua, that if the Israelites would attack their enemies, God would defeat them (Deu 31:1-8; Jos 1:1-9). Faith in God always rests on a word from God in Scripture. Most of the Israelites took Goliath’s challenge as defying Israel (1Sa 17:25), but David interpreted it as defying the living God, the only true God (1Sa 17:26). Here David’s heart for God begins to manifest itself (cf. 1Sa 16:7).<\/p>\n "Eliab sought for the splinter in his brother’s eye, and was not aware of the beam in his own. The very things with which he charged his brother-presumption and wickedness of heart-were most apparent in his scornful reproof." [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, p. 181.] <\/span><\/p>\n "Eliab’s anger is the anger of a man who feels small because of the Israelite army’s inability to deal with Goliath, and he particularly resents looking small in the eyes of his young brother [whom Samuel had anointed king-elect instead of himself]." [Note: Gordon, p. 156.] <\/span><\/p>\n David continued to inquire about the prize for slaying Goliath, probably to make sure he understood what he would risk his life to obtain.<\/p>\n And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? 26. the living God ] Jehovah as the one “living … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 17:26”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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