Bible verse

1 Samuel 17:27

The people told him about the offer, saying, “That is what will be done for the man who kills him.”

1 Samuel 17:27 · BSB

1 Samuel 17:27 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 17.

23 And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.

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

25 Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”

26 David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

27 The people told him about the offer, saying, “That is what will be done for the man who kills him.”

28 Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

29 “What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

30 Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

31 Now David’s words were overheard and reported to Saul, who called for him.

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1 Samuel 17:27 in other translations

KJV

And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

ASV

And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

ERV

And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

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