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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 17:18 - Strong Concordance

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1Sa 17:18 Strong Concordance And carry [0935] these ten [06235] cheeses [02461] [02757] unto the captain [08269] of their thousand [0505], and look [06485] how thy brethren [0251] fare [07965], and take [03947] their pledge [06161].
  King James And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
carry these ten cheeses to the captain--to enlist his kind attention. Oriental cheeses are very small; and although they are frequently made of so soft a consistence as to resemble curds, those which David carried seem to have been fully formed, pressed, and sufficiently dried to admit of their being carried.

take their pledge--Tokens of the soldiers' health and safety were sent home in the convenient form of a lock of their hair, or piece of their nail, or such like.
 
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