English Standard Version
1 Samuel 17:18
18Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them."
1 Samuel 17:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
- New International Version (NIV)Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers fare, and bring back news of them.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)And give these ten cuts of cheese to their captain. See how your brothers are getting along, and bring back a report on how they are doing.”
Context of 1 Samuel 17:18
16For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening. 17And Jesse said to David his son, "Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers. Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them." 19Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. 20And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.
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וְ֠אֵת עֲשֶׂ֜רֶת חֲרִצֵ֤י הֶֽחָלָב֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה תָּבִ֖יא לְשַׂר־הָאָ֑לֶף וְאֶת־אַחֶ֙יךָ֙ תִּפְקֹ֣ד לְשָׁל֔וֹם וְאֶת־עֲרֻבָּתָ֖ם תִּקָּֽח׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And carryבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
- these tenעֶשֶׂר‛eώer ‛ăώârâh · tenH6235
- cheesesחָרִיץchârîyts chârits · incisionH2757
- cheesesחָלָבchâlâb · milkH2461
- unto the captainשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
- thousandאֶ֫לֶף'eleph · thousandH505
- and lookפָּקַדpâqad · to reckon: visitH6485
- how thy brethrenאָח'âch · brother: male-siblingH251
- fareשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965
- and takeלָקַחlâqach · to take: bringH3947
- their pledgeעֲרֻבָּה‛ărûbbâh · pledgeH6161
Cross-references for 1 Samuel 17:18
- 1 Samuel 16:20And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.
- 2 Samuel 17:29honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."
- Job 10:10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
- Genesis 37:14So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Acts 15:36And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
Commentaries on 1 Samuel 17:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Carry these ten cheeses - Cheeses of milk, says the margin. In the East they do not make what we call cheese: they press the milk but slightly, and carry it in rush baskets. It is highly salted, and little different from curds.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Take their pledge - i. e., bring back what they have to say in return.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-30Verses 12-30 Jesse little thought of sending his son to the army at that critical juncture; but the wise God orders actions and affairs, so as to serve his designs. In times of general formality and lukewarmness, every degree of zeal which implies readiness to go further, or to venture more in the cause of God than others, will be blamed as pride and ambition, and by none more than by near relations, like Eliab, or negligent superiors. It was a trial of…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. carry these ten cheeses to the captain--to enlist his kind attention. Oriental cheeses are very small; and although they are frequently made of so soft a consistence as to resemble curds, those which David carried seem to have been fully formed, pressed, and sufficiently dried to admit of their being carried. take their pledge--Tokens of the soldiers' health and safety were sent home in the convenient form of a lock of their hair, or piece of their…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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