1 Samuel 17:58 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 17:58

56 So the king said, “Inquire whose son this young man is.”

57 Then, as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul ^awith the head of the Philistine in his hand.

58 And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” So David answered, ^a“I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

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Saul . . . said unto Abner . . . whose son is this youth?—A young man is more spoken of in many Eastern countries by his father's name than his own. The growth of the beard, and other changes on a now full-grown youth, prevented the king from recognizing his former favorite minstrel [I Samuel 16:23].

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