1 Samuel 17:16
Good News Translation
Goliath challenged the Israelites every morning and evening for forty days.

New Revised Standard Version
For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

Contemporary English Version
Goliath came out and gave his challenge every morning and every evening for 40 days.

New American Bible
Meanwhile the Philistine came forward and took his stand morning and evening for forty days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

forty days

Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Luke 4:2 For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

Context
David Accepts the Challenge
15David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem. 16Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.17And Isai said to David, his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi of frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren,…
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:15
David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:17
And Isai said to David, his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi of frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren,

1 Samuel 17:15
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