Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The trench - Rather, "the wagons," which were all put together in the camp so as to form a kind of bulwark or fortification (see I Samuel 26:5, I Samuel 26:7). Here David left his "carriage" I Samuel 17:22, i. e., the things which he had carried, "his things" as we should say, or baggage (translated stuff in I Samuel 10:22; I Samuel 25:13; I Samuel 30:24). There seems to have been an officer ("the keeper," I Samuel 17:22) in the Hebrew army whose charge it was to guard the baggage.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 17:20:
Psalms 41:11
Psalms 95:1
Isaiah 5:29
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