1 Samuel 17:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 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."
  • 1 Sam 16:19-23 : 19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep." 20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul. 21 David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer. 22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight." 23 It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

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  • 1 Sam 17:31-35
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    80%

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

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

    33 Saul 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."

    34 David 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,

    35 I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

  • 1 Sam 17:19-20
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    78%

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

    20 David 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 Sam 17:14
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    14 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

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

  • 1 Sam 17:57-58
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    57 As 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 17:12
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    12 Now 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.

  • 1 Sam 17:16-17
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    74%

    16 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

    17 Jesse 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 Sam 24:1
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    1 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi."

  • 1 Sam 17:37
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    37 David 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 20:28
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    28 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 23:13
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    13 Then 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.

  • 1 Chr 17:7
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    7 "Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.

  • 2 Sam 23:14
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    14 David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
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    10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 25:12
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    12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
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    5 David 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 17:41
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    41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

  • 1 Chr 11:16
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    16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 17:22
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    22 David 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 17:28
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    28 Eliab 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."

  • Gen 37:12
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    12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • 1 Sam 16:11
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    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."

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

  • 1 Sam 23:15
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    15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  • 1 Sam 23:28-29
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    28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.

    29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
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    3 Saul 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 19:18
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    18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1 David 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 Sam 23:2
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    2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

  • Ps 78:70
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    70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 14:46
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    46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1 David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

  • 1 Sam 19:8
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    8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:39
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    39 David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, "I can't go with these; for I have not tested them." David took them off.

  • 1 Sam 18:16
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    16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

  • 1 Sam 18:12-13
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    12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

    13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

  • 1 Sam 18:30
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    30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

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    25 Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

  • 1 Sam 25:4
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    4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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    3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.