1 Samuel 17:28
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burnt against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
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In Context
27The people answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”
29David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”
Cross References
Genesis 37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
Genesis 37:11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
1 Samuel 16:13Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
Psalms 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Matthew 10:36A man’s foes will be those 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 →