David Accepts the Challenge
1 Samuel 17:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
- KJV
- But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth-lehem.
- WEB
- Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
- ASV
- Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth-lehem.
- LSV
- and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
- YLT
- and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
- DBY
- But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
- DRC
- David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s flock at Bethlehem.
- GNV
- Dauid also went, but hee returned from Saul to feede his fathers sheepe in Beth-lehem.
- JPS
- Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. —
- LXXE
- And David departed and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s sheep in Bethleem;Gr. feeding.
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- WLC
- וְדָוִ֛ד הֹלֵ֥ךְ וָשָׁ֖ב מֵעַ֣ל שָׁא֑וּל לִרְע֛וֹת אֶת־צֹ֥אן אָבִ֖יו בֵּֽית־לָֽחֶם׃
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- 1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
- 1 Samuel 16:19–23So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.” And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David. When…
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