1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto the men, and Eliab was verie angrie with Dauid, and sayde, Why camest thou downe hither? and with whome hast thou left those fewe sheepe in the wildernesse? I knowe thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come downe to see the battell.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 after this maner, saying, Thus shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

29Then Dauid sayde, What haue I nowe done? Is there not a cause?

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Cross References

Genesis 37:4So when his brethren sawe that their father loued him more then all his brethren, then they hated him, and could not speake peaceably vnto him.

Genesis 37:11And his brethren enuied him, but his father noted the saying.

1 Samuel 16:13Then Samuel tooke the horne of oyle, and anoynted him in the middes of his brethren. And the Spirit of the Lord came vpon Dauid, from that day forwarde: then Samuel rose vp, and went to Ramah.

Psalms 35:11Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.

Proverbs 27:4Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?

Matthew 10:36And a mans enemies shall be they of his owne housholde.

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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