~ went before him ~ 09_1SA_17_07  And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron, and one bearing a shield went before him. #, 09_1SA_17_41  And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield [went] before him. #,