The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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1 Samuel 17:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

 

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1 Samuel 17:12 (ESV)
Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.

 

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And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.


1 Samuel 17:13

 

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1 Samuel 17:14 (ESV)
David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,

 

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1 Samuel 17:15 (ESV)
but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

 

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1 Samuel 17:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.

 

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1 Samuel 17:17 (ESV)
And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.

 

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1 Samuel 17:18 (NASB)
[SUP]18 [/SUP] "Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them.

 

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1 Samuel 17:19
New International Version (NIV)

They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”

 

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(1 Samuel 17:20): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)

David Accepts the Challenge

20 So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry.

 

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1 Samuel 17:21 (KJV)
And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.

 

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1 Samuel 17:22 (ESV)
And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.

 

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1 Samuel 17:23 (NASB)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] As he was talking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath, was coming up from the army of the Philistines, and he spoke these same words; and David heard them.

 

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1 Samuel 17:24 (ESV)
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.

 

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1 Samuel 17:25 (NASB)
[SUP]25 [/SUP] The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel."

 

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1 Samuel 17:26
New International Version (NIV)

David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

 

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1 Samuel 17:27 (ESV)
And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”

 

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1 Samuel 17:28 (KJV)
[SUP]28 [/SUP] And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

 

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1 Samuel 17:29 (ERV)
And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

 

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1 Samuel 17:30 (ESV)
And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.