1 Samuel 17:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And David was the youngest: and the three oldest were with Saul's army.

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  • 1 Sam 16:11 : 11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.
  • Gen 25:23 : 23 And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.

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  • 1 Sam 17:12-13
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    83%

    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

    13And the three oldest sons of Jesse had gone with Saul to the fight: the names of the three who went to the fight were Eliab, the oldest, and Abinadab the second, and Shammah the third.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    78%

    15Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

  • 1 Sam 16:10-11
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    77%

    10And Jesse made his seven sons come before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not taken any of these.

    11Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.

  • 1 Sam 17:55-58
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    55And when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this young man? And Abner said, On your life, O king, I have no idea.

    56And the king said, Make search and see whose son this young man is.

    57And when David was coming back after the destruction of the Philistine, Abner took him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

    58And Saul said to him, Young man, whose son are you? And David in answer said, I am the son of your servant Jesse of Beth-lehem.

  • 1 Sam 17:31-34
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    31And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.

    32And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.

    33And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.

    34And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • 1 Sam 16:18-19
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    18Then one of the servants in answer said, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Beth-lehemite, who is expert at playing, and a strong man and a man of war; and he is wise in his words, and pleasing in looks, and the Lord is with him.

    19So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

  • 1 Sam 17:19-20
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    74%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

    20And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.

  • 1 Chr 2:13-14
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    74%

    13And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

    14Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,

  • 1 Sam 17:28
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    28And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.

  • 2 Sam 3:1
    73%

    1Now there was a long war between Saul's people and David's people; and David became stronger and stronger, but those on Saul's side became more and more feeble.

  • 1 Chr 14:7-8
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    72%

    7And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet.

    8And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them.

  • 1 Chr 10:2
    72%

    2And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 31:2
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    2And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
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    41And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
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    17Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;

  • 2 Sam 5:16
    70%

    16And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
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    5And David went wherever Saul sent him, and did wisely: and Saul put him at the head of his men of war, and this was pleasing to all the people as well as to Saul's servants.

  • 1 Sam 17:22
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    22And David gave his parcels into the hands of the keeper of the army stores, and went running to the army and came to his brothers to get knowledge about them.

  • 1 Sam 18:14
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    14And in all his undertakings David did wisely; and the Lord was with him.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
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    37And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.

  • 1 Sam 14:17
    70%

    17Then Saul said to the people who were with him, Let everyone be numbered and let us see who has gone from us. And when they had been numbered, it was seen that Jonathan and his servant were not there.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    69%

    3And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.

  • 1 Sam 14:49
    69%

    49Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishvi and Malchi-shua; and these are the names of his daughters: the older was named Merab and the younger Michal;

  • 1 Sam 24:2
    69%

    2Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

  • 1 Chr 2:16
    69%

    16And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

  • 1 Sam 26:6
    69%

    6Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me to the tents of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.

  • 1 Chr 3:2
    69%

    2The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;

  • 1 Chr 11:3
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    3So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    69%

    17And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

  • 1 Chr 18:17
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    17And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.

  • 1 Chr 3:8
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    8And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.

  • 1 Sam 23:13
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    13Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.

  • 2 Sam 1:13
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    13And David said to the young man who had given him the news, Where do you come from? And he said, I am the son of a man from a strange land; I am an Amalekite.

  • 1 Sam 18:12
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    12And Saul went in fear of David, because the Lord was with David and had gone away from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.