1 Samuel 17:11

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 do taunt the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.'

12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.'

1 Samuel 21:13(21-14) And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

Psalms 118:6The LORD is for me; I will not fear; what can man do unto me?

Isaiah 51:12I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as 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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