Teks -- 1 Samuel 17:18 (NET)

17:18 Also take these ten portions of cheese to their commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are doing and bring back their pledge that they received the goods.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Sa 17:18 - Pledge

That is, bring me some token of their welfare.

JFB: 1Sa 17:18 - 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.

JFB: 1Sa 17:18 - 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.

Clarke: 1Sa 17:18 - Carry these ten cheeses

Carry these ten cheeses - Cheeses of milk, says the margin. In the East they do not make what we call cheese: they press the milk but slightly, and carry it in rush baskets. It is highly salted, and little different from curds.

TSK: 1Sa 17:18 - carry // cheeses // their thousand // look

carry : 1Sa 16:20

cheeses : Heb. cheeses of milk, 2Sa 17:29; Job 10:10

their thousand : Heb. a thousand

look : Gen 37:14; Act 15:36; 1Th 3:5, 1Th 3:6

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Sa 17:18 - Unto the captain of their thousand // Take their pledge

Unto the captain of their thousand in whose power it was in a great measure, either to preserve them, or to expose them to utmost hazards.

Take their pledge i.e. bring me some token of their welfare from them.

Haydock: 1Sa 17:18 - Cheeses // Placed

Cheeses. Hebrew, "of milk." Septuagint, "pieces of soft cheese:" erts is no where else used to denote cheese. This was a present (Calmet) for (Hebrew) "the Chiliarch." ---

Placed, who is their immediate officer. (Haydock) ---

Hebrew, "how they are mixed:" their company. Septuagint, &c., "what they stand in need of." Symmachus, "Thou shalt receive their pay." Syriac and Arabic, "what news." Others would translate, "their pledge," or bill of divorce to their wives, that, in case they be made prisoners for three years, the latter may be allowed to marry. (Trad. Heb.[Hebrew tradition?]) (Calmet)

Gill: 1Sa 17:18 - And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand // and look how thy brethren fare // and take their pledge

And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand,.... Their chiliarch or colonel, who had the command of 1000 men, and under whom Jesse's sons fought; Jarchi thinks this was Jonathan, who had 1000 men with him at Gibeah, and so now, 1Sa 13:2, these cheeses were sent by Jesse to the captain, to be distributed among his men, or a present to himself, that he might use his sons well who were under his command:

and look how thy brethren fare; whether in good health, in good spirits, and in safety:

and take their pledge; that is, if they had been obliged for want of money to pawn any of their clothes, or what they had with them to buy food with, that he would redeem and take up the pledge, by paying the money for which they were pawned; for it is thought that soldiers at this time were not maintained at the expense of the king and government, but at their own, and the families to which they belonged: though some are of opinion that this was some token which they had sent by a messenger to their father, by which he might know he came from them, so Ben Gersom; and which David was now to take with him, and return it; or a token that he was to bring from them, whereby he might be assured of their welfare; and so the Targum, "and bring their goodness", a token of their being in good health. The Jews ^z understand it of bills of divorce to be given to their wives, that if they should die in battle, or be taken captive, that their wives might marry after three years.