Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
staff of his spear—rather under five feet long, and capable of being used as a javelin (I Samuel 19:10). It had an iron head.
one bearing a shield—In consequence of their great size and weight, the Oriental warrior had a trusty and skilful friend, whose office it was to bear the large shield behind which he avoided the missile weapons of the enemy. He was covered, cap-a-pie, with defensive armor, while he had only two offensive weapons—a sword by his side and a spear in his hand.
GOLIATH CHALLENGES A COMBAT. (I Samuel 17:4-11)
a champion—Hebrew, a "man between two"; that is, a person who, on the part of his own people, undertook to determine the national quarrel by engaging in single combat with a chosen warrior in the hostile army.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Samuel 17:7:
1 Samuel 17:4-11
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