OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 17:33

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33

Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

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Verse 33. Boy, compared with the giant, ( Bible.) or Saul, though David might be about 22 years old, (Salien) or near 30. Tirinus.—Saint Augustine and Theodoret say only 14 or 16. Menochius.—He had not yet been in the wars. Calmet.

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