1 Samuel 17:11

When Saul and all Israel heard those wordes of the Philistim, they were discouraged, and greatly afraide.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10Also the Philistim saide, I defie the hoste of Israel this day: giue mee a man, that we may fight together.

12Nowe this Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Beth-lehem Iudah, named Ishai, which had eight sonnes: and this man was taken for an olde man in the daies of Saul.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:9Haue not I commanded thee, saying, Be strong and of a good courage, feare not, nor be discouraged? for I the Lord thy God will be with thee, whithersoeuer thou goest.

1 Samuel 21:13And hee changed his behauiour before them, and fayned him selfe mad in their handes, and scrabled on the doores of the gate, and let his spettel fall downe vpon his beard.

Psalms 118:6The Lord is with mee: therefore I will not feare what man can doe vnto me.

Isaiah 51:12I, euen I am he, that comfort you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest feare a mortall man, and the sonne of man, which shalbe made as grasse?

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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