Devine Scripture

1 Samuel 17:24

1 Samuel chapter 17 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

Context

v.23And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

v.24This passage

v.25And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 13:6

    When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.

  • Isaiah 7:2

    And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

  • Deuteronomy 32:30

    How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

  • 1 Samuel 17:11

    And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

  • Numbers 13:33

    And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

  • Isaiah 30:17

    One thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.