1 Samuel 17:56

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Sam 17:55
    91%

    55 When 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."

  • 1 Sam 17:57-58
    2 verses
    84%

    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 26:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

    18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • 2 Sam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

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

    14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

  • 2 Sam 1:3-8
    6 verses
    79%

    3 David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel."

    4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

    5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"

    6 The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

    7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, 'Here I am.'

    8 He said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'

  • 1 Sam 18:18
    77%

    18 David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"

  • 1 Sam 17:25-27
    3 verses
    75%

    25 The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."

    26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

    27 The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

  • 1 Sam 17:31-33
    3 verses
    75%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 26:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don't you answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who cries to the king?"

    15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

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

    18 Then 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."

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

  • 1 Sam 26:22
    74%

    22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

  • 1 Sam 22:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12 Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

    13 Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Chr 10:14
    74%

    14 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 18:22
    74%

    22 Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, 'Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.'"

  • 1 Sam 17:12
    74%

    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 18:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

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

    25 Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:2
    73%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 20:32
    73%

    32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

  • 1 Sam 22:10
    72%

    10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    72%

    20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Sam 17:14
    72%

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

  • 2 Sam 1:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

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

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    72%

    9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

  • 1 Sam 17:29
    72%

    29 David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

  • 1 Sam 17:37
    72%

    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 22:8
    72%

    8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 1 Sam 10:15
    72%

    15 Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you."

  • 1 Sam 24:16
    72%

    16 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
    71%

    27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

  • 1 Sam 20:10
    71%

    10 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?"

  • 1 Sam 21:9
    71%

    9 The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

  • 1 Sam 16:11
    71%

    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."