1 Samuel 17:54

David...brought it to Jerusalem . This is an anticipation of later history. The Jebusites at this time held Jerusalem; but when David had taken it from them, he removed the head of Goliath thither, and the narrator, following the usual custom of Hebrew historians, mentions the ultimate fate of this trophy here (see on 1 Samuel 16:21 ). He put his armour in his tent. I.e. he carried it to his home (see on 1 Samuel 2:35 ; 1 Samuel 4:10 ; 1 Samuel 13:2 , etc.), where it became his private property. The mistranslation of camp by tents in 1 Samuel 17:53 might lead an English reader to suppose that it meant a tent in the camp of Israel; but most probably the men all slept under their wagons. Abravanel supposes that by David's tent was meant the tabernacle of Jehovah, but this would surely have been stated more fully. Either, however, now, or at some later period, David must have presented the sword as an offering to the tabernacle, as it was laid up at Nob, whence he took it with him in his flight (see 1 Samuel 21:9 ).

SAUL 'S INQUIRY CONCERNING DAVID 'S PARENTAGE ( 1 Samuel 17:55-58 ).