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1 Samuel 17:10-12
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10 Then the Philistine said, “I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight[a] each other!” 11 When Saul and all the Israelites[b] heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

12 [c] Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years.[d]

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  1. 1 Samuel 17:10 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative verbal form indicates purpose/result here.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:11 tn Heb “all Israel.”
  3. 1 Samuel 17:12 tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.
  4. 1 Samuel 17:12 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”
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