1 Samuel 16:4 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 16:4

So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”

BSB

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ASV

And Samuel did that which Jehovah spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

KJV

And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Beth–lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֣עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he did	H6213 →
שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל	she.mu.'El	Samuel	H8050 →
אֵ֚ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	[that] which	H834 →
דִּבֶּ֣ר	di.Ber	he said	H1696 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וַיָּבֹ֖א	vai.ya.Vo'	and he came	H935 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	Beth-	H1035 →
לָ֑חֶם	La.chem	-lehem	H1035 →
וַיֶּחֶרְד֞וּ	vai.ye.cher.Du	and they trembled	H2729 →
זִקְנֵ֤י	zik.Nei	[the] elders of	H2205 →
הָעִיר֙	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
לִקְרָאת֔וֹ	lik.ra.To	to meet him	H7122 →
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and someone said	H559 →
שָׁלֹ֥ם	sha.Lom	[in] peace	H7965 →
בּוֹאֶֽךָ׃	bo.'E.kha	[are] coming? you	H935 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
leads to
- Isaiah 6:5
  Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD…
- Job 42:5–6
  My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
- Revelation 1:17
  When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
- Job 40:4
  “Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
- Judges 13:22
  “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
Through
1 Samuel 21:1
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
leads to
- Mark 2:26
  During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
- Nehemiah 11:32
  in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- 1 Samuel 14:3
  including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not…