The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XVII.

[Sam. 36] DAVID killeth Goliah. A type of Christs victory over Satan, the chief Captain of the uncircumcised. He bringeth the Giants head to Saul, and Saul questioned, Whose Son art thou? Not that either Saul or Ab∣ner were ignorant who David was; for he went but from harping to Saul, when Saul went to this War, ver. 15. but they wonder what kind of man it was that had such Sons, as Jesse had now in the Army: And his question is not so much Filius cujus, as Filius qualis viri; or not of Davids Person, but of his Parentage. The 55 and 56 verses in their proper order should lie after verse 40. but they are put off to the place where they lie, that Sauls question which was before the Battel, and the resolution of it, which was not till after, might be laid together: and so the Story of verse 54. of Davids laying up the Giants head at Jerusalem, is laid before its time, as they were laid after; for he laid not that there till some space of time after, and what time, uncertain: But the relation of it is mentioned in this place, because he would dispatch the Story of Goliah at once.