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Good News Translation

1 Samuel 17:24

When the Israelites saw Goliath, they ran away in terror.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Championship;   Cowardice;   Decision;   Doubting;   Jesse;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Courage-Fear;   Cowardice;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Powerlessness;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Weakness, Human;   Weakness-Power;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Goliath;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Philistia, philistines;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Giant;   Samuel, Books of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Goliath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When all the Israelite men saw Goliath, they retreated from him terrified.
Hebrew Names Version
All the men of Yisra'el, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
King James Version
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
Lexham English Bible
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from his presence and were very afraid.
English Standard Version
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.
New Century Version
When the Israelites saw Goliath, they were very much afraid and ran away.
New English Translation
When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated from his presence and were very afraid.
Amplified Bible
When the men of Israel all saw the man, they fled from him, and were very frightened.
New American Standard Bible
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were very fearful.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the men of Israel, when they sawe the man, ranne away from him, and were sore afraied.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now all the men of Israel saw the man, and they fled from him and were greatly afraid.
Contemporary English Version
When the Israelite soldiers saw Goliath, they were scared and ran off.
Complete Jewish Bible
When the soldiers from Isra'el saw the man, they all ran away from him, terrified.
Darby Translation
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were greatly afraid.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelite soldiers saw Goliath and ran away. They were all afraid of him.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the mighty man, were afraid and fled from him.
Literal Translation
And when they saw the man, all the men of Israel ran from him, and were very much afraid.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But euery man of Israel, whan he sawe the man, fled from him, and was sore afrayed of him.
American Standard Version
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
Bible in Basic English
And all the men of Israel, when they saw him, went in flight, overcome with fear.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the people of Israel, when they sawe the man, ranne away from him, and were sore afrayde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
King James Version (1611)
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
English Revised Version
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
Berean Standard Bible
When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne alle men of Israel hadden seyn `the man, thei fledden fro his face, and dredden hym greetli.
Young's Literal Translation
and all the men of Israel when they see the man flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.
Update Bible Version
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were very afraid.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were exceedingly afraid.
World English Bible
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
New King James Version
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid.
New Living Translation
As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright.
New Life Bible
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they ran away from him and were very much afraid.
New Revised Standard
All the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from him and were very much afraid.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from before him, and feared exceedingly.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly.
Revised Standard Version
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were much afraid.
THE MESSAGE
The Israelites, to a man, fell back the moment they saw the giant—totally frightened. The talk among the troops was, "Have you ever seen anything like this, this man openly and defiantly challenging Israel? The man who kills the giant will have it made. The king will give him a huge reward, offer his daughter as a bride, and give his entire family a free ride."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid.

Contextual Overview

12 David was the son of Jesse, who was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and at the time Saul was king, he was already a very old man. 13 His three oldest sons had gone with Saul to war. The oldest was Eliab, the next was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah. 14 David was the youngest son, and while the three oldest brothers stayed with Saul, 15 David would go back to Bethlehem from time to time, to take care of his father's sheep. 16 Goliath challenged the Israelites every morning and evening for forty days. 17 One day Jesse said to David, "Take a half-bushel of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and hurry with them to your brothers in the camp. 18 And take these ten cheeses to the commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are getting along and bring back something to show that you saw them and that they are well. 19 King Saul, your brothers, and all the other Israelites are in Elah Valley fighting the Philistines." 20 David got up early the next morning, left someone else in charge of the sheep, took the food, and went as Jesse had told him to. He arrived at the camp just as the Israelites were going out to their battle line, shouting the war cry. 21 The Philistine and the Israelite armies took positions for battle, facing each other.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

him: Heb. his face, 1 Samuel 13:6, 1 Samuel 13:7

sore: 1 Samuel 17:11, Leviticus 26:36, Numbers 13:33, Deuteronomy 32:30, Isaiah 7:2, Isaiah 30:17

Reciprocal: Revelation 13:4 - who is able

Cross-References

Genesis 12:4
When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the Lord had told him to do; and Lot went with him.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.
Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"
Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:20
I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.
Romans 4:11
He was circumcised later, and his circumcision was a sign to show that because of his faith God had accepted him as righteous before he had been circumcised. And so Abraham is the spiritual father of all who believe in God and are accepted as righteous by him, even though they are not circumcised.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man,.... Even as it should seem before they heard him; knowing who he was, and what he was about to say, having seen and heard him forty days running:

fled from him, and were sore afraid; it is pretty much a whole army should be afraid of one man, and flee from him; they must be greatly forsaken of God, and given up by him, see Deuteronomy 32:30; but perhaps they were not so much afraid of personal danger from him, as that they could not bear to hear his blasphemy.


 
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