1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.
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27And the people gave him this answer, So it will be done to the man who overcomes him.
29And David said, What have I done now? was it not only a word?
Cross References
Genesis 37:4And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:11And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.
1 Samuel 16:13Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.
Psalms 35:11False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.
Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Matthew 10:36And a man will be hated by those of his house.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 17:13-31
David Comes to the Camp of Israel. ( b. c. 1060.) 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13 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. 14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 15 But David went and… Read the whole commentary →