1 SAMUEL 18:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.”
And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and he prospered, and Saul set him over the men of war — David's *va'yatzlach*, prospered, invokes the language of divine favor; wherever the *derekh*, path, that Saul commanded him to walk, David succeeded. The verb *va'yaskenu*, set him, over the *anshey hamilchama*, men of war, represents David's rise from personal warrior to military commander, a position of significant authority. His success in every enterprise (*b'khol asher shalach oto*, in all that Saul sent him) establishes him as Saul's right hand, the instrument through whom the king accomplishes his will.
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