1 Samuel 17:16

New English Translation

Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.

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After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

Jesse said to his son David, “Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly to the camp to your brothers.