1 Samuel 17:14

World English Bible (2000)

David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 16:11 : 11 Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?" He said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he comes here."
  • Gen 25:23 : 23 Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."

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  • 1 Sam 17:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.

    13The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    78%

    15Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 16:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, "Yahweh has not chosen these."

    11Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?" He said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he comes here."

  • 1 Sam 17:55-58
    4 verses
    75%

    55When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell."

    56The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"

    57As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

    58Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

  • 1 Sam 17:31-34
    4 verses
    74%

    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

    32David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."

    33Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."

    34David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

  • 1 Sam 16:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Then one of the young men answered, and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him."

    19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

  • 1 Sam 17:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

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

    20David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

  • 1 Chr 2:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

    14Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

  • 1 Sam 17:28
    73%

    28Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle."

  • 2 Sam 3:1
    73%

    1Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

  • 1 Chr 14:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.

    8When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.

  • 1 Chr 10:2
    72%

    2The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 31:2
    72%

    2The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
    71%

    41The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
    71%

    17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    71%

    1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    70%

    1It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

  • 2 Sam 5:16
    70%

    16and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    70%

    5David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 1 Sam 17:22
    70%

    22David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

  • 1 Sam 18:14
    70%

    14David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
    70%

    37David said, "Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go; and Yahweh shall be with you."

  • 1 Sam 14:17
    70%

    17Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count now, and see who is missing from us." When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    69%

    3Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 14:49
    69%

    49Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

  • 1 Sam 24:2
    69%

    2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

  • 1 Chr 2:16
    69%

    16and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

  • 1 Sam 26:6
    69%

    6Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?" 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
    69%

    3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    69%

    17Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;

  • 1 Chr 18:17
    69%

    17and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

  • 1 Chr 3:8
    69%

    8and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

  • 1 Sam 23:13
    69%

    13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    69%

    13David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."

  • 1 Sam 18:12
    69%

    12Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    69%

    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."