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1 Samuel 17:16

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening,.... Twice a day he came near the camp, within the hearing of it. The Jews say, he took those seasons on purpose to disturb them in reading their "Shema", or "hear, O Israel", &c.

and saying their prayers morning and evening:and presented himself forty days; Successively, before the armies of Israel, daring them to send down a man to fight with him, and reproaching them for their cowardice in not doing it.

T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 42.

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