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1 Samuel 17:24

All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

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

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to 1 Samuel 17:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 26:36 “ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
  • Numbers 13:33 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
  • Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
  • 1 Samuel 13:6-7 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits. Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
  • 1 Samuel 17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
  • Isaiah 7:2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
  • Isaiah 30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when…

1Sa 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

Ver. 24. Fled from him.] As from a bugbear. This was their want of faith in God’s power and promises; the property whereof is, to quell and kill distrustful fears.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the men of Israel, when they saw…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Fled - One Philistine could never have thus put…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Exceedingly, though they had now heard him twice a-day…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. Fled from him, and were sore afraid —…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Fled from him, and were sore afraid.—The student…

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