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1 Samuel 17:24

in 1 Samuel 17

When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

KJV

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

This verse in 1 Samuel 17

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled, etc. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3). Only Christ could say: The prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on me (John 14). …

This site's exposition

spake according to the same words

on 1 Samuel 17:23-24

David hears with fresh ears what Israel has heard eighty times, and the men around him flee at the sight of the man. The contrast is the point: the army sees a giant and measures itself against him, and David hears a reproach and measures it against God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Though he was the tallest of all the men of Israel, and, if he had not been so, while he kept close to God might himself have safely taken up the gauntlet which this insolent Philistine threw down, yet, the Spirit of the Lord having departed from him, he durst not do it, nor press Jonathan to do it; but whoever will do it shall have as good preferment as he can give him,
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The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכֹל֙and every

    vekholH36055413 times

  • אִ֣ישׁ<the> man of

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • בִּרְאוֹתָ֖םwhen saw they

    birotamH72001300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָאִ֑ישׁthe man

    haishH3761663 times

  • וַיָּנֻ֙סוּ֙and they fled

    vaiyanusuH5127159 times

  • מִפָּנָ֔יוfrom before him

    mipanavH64402123 times

  • וַיִּֽירְא֖וּand they were afraid

    vaiyireuH3372315 times

  • מְאֹֽד׃exceedingly

    meodH3966300 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 13:33

    We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:28

      Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…

    • Genesis 6:4

      The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…

    • Isaiah 40:22

      He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

    • Deuteronomy 9:2

      The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

  • Through

    Isaiah 30:17

    A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 28:25

      The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to…

    • Deuteronomy 32:30

      How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:36

    As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 21:7

      And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and…

    • Isaiah 30:17

      A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Samuel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. G. Blaikie, The First Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).