Bible verse
Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.
1 Samuel 17:30 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 17.
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.
32 And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”
33 But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
34 David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
KJV
And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
ASV
And he turned away from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
ERV
And he turned away from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
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