1 Samuel 17:11

And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the Philistine were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: Give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Juda before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:9Behold I command thee, take courage, end be strong. Fear not and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.

1 Samuel 21:13And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down between their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.

Psalms 118:6The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man can do unto me.

Isaiah 51:12I, I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 17:2-12

Goliath's Challenge to Israel. ( b. c. 1060.) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between… Read the whole commentary →

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