Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 17:38
1 Samuel 17:38. Saul armed David with his armour Not that which he was wont to wear himself, for he was so tall it would not have fitted David, but with armour taken out of his armory. The Hebrew word מדיו , madaiv, however, here rendered armour, more properly signifies his vestments, or his garments, and is so translated chap. 1 Samuel 18:4, and in most other places where it occurs. Indeed his armour is distinguished from this, and particularly described in the following words. He... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 17:36-37
1 Samuel 17:36-37. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear, &c. There is a remarkable, and never to be sufficiently admired modesty in this relation of David, which he concludes by attributing all he had done to the goodness and power of God. And he takes encouragement from the experience which he had already had of these divine attributes being exerted on his behalf on a less important occasion, to believe that they would be exerted on this occasion also, which was much more... read more