1 Samuel 17:24

And all the men of Israel when they saw the man fled from before him, and they were greatly terrified.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And while he was speaking with them, behold the Amessaean advanced, Goliath by name, the Philistine of Geth, of the armies of the Philistines, and he spoke + 17:23 Gr. according to these words. as before, and David heard.

25And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that comes up? for he has reproached Israel and has come up; and it shall be that the man who shall smite him, the king shall enrich him with great wealth and shall give him his daughter, and shall make his father’s house free in Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.

1 Samuel 13:6And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw + 13:6 Gr. to battle.nigh, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits.

Isaiah 7:2And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.

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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