1 Samuel 17:28

Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why earnest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

27And the people answered him the same words saying: These things shall be given to the man that shall slay him.

29And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?

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Cross References

Genesis 37:4And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

Genesis 37:11His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

1 Samuel 16:13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.

Psalms 35:11Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Proverbs 27:4Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

Matthew 10:36And as a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.

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 →

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