OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 17:36

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36

Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

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Verse 36. I will … Philistine. This is not in Hebrew or the Septuagint and it is marked as an addition in the ancient MSS. Calmet.—Single combats, to prevent the spilling of more blood, may sometimes be authorized by public authority. Grotius.

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