1 Samuel 17:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Saul gave David his clothing of war, and put a head-dress of brass on his head and had him clothed with a coat of metal.

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  • 1 Sam 17:39-41
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    39 And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off.

    40 Then he took his stick in his hand, and got five smooth stones from the bed of the stream and put them in a bag such as is used by sheep-keepers; and in his hand was a leather band used for sending stones: and so he went in the direction of the Philistine.

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

  • 1 Sam 17:5-7
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    5 And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.

    6 His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

    7 The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
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    37 And 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 17:31-35
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    31 And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.

    32 And 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.

    33 And 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.

    34 And 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,

    35 I went out after him, and overcame him, and took it out of his mouth: and if, turning on me, he came at me, I took him by the hair and overcame him and put him to death.

  • 1 Sam 17:54
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    54 And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.

  • 1 Sam 17:19-21
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    19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

    20 And 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.

    21 And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57 And 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.

  • 1 Sam 16:21
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    21 And David came to Saul, waiting before him: and he became very dear to Saul, who made him his servant, giving him the care of his arms.

  • 1 Sam 18:4-5
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    4 And Jonathan took off the robe he had on and gave it to David, with all his military dress, even to his sword and his bow and the band round his body.

    5 And 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 17:48-51
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    48 Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face.

    49 And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.

    50 So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand.

    51 So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.

  • 1 Sam 17:2
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    2 And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:45
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    45 Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.

  • 1 Sam 31:4-5
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    4 Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.

    5 And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and was united with him in death.

  • 1 Sam 18:24-25
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    24 And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.

    25 And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 10:9-10
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    9 And they took everything off him, and took his head and his war-dress, and sent word into the land of the Philistines round about to give the news to their gods and to the people.

    10 And they put his war-dress in the house of their gods, and put up his head in the house of Dagon.

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
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    8 And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

    9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that; give it to me.

  • 1 Sam 17:11
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    11 And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.

  • 1 Sam 18:17
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    17 And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:23
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    23 And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-13
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    11 And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.

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

    13 So Saul sent him away, and made him a captain over a thousand; and he went about his business before the people.

  • Isa 59:17
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    17 Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.

  • 1 Chr 10:4-5
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    4 Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.

    5 And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death.

  • 1 Sam 16:19
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    19 So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

  • 1 Sam 23:8
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    8 And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.

  • 1 Sam 24:4
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    4 And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.

  • 1 Sam 17:26
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    26 And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

  • 1 Sam 19:8
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    8 And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • 1 Chr 18:7
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    7 And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 16:13
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    13 Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.