The Israelites said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. The king will greatly enrich the man who kills him and will give him his daughter and make his family free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done for the man who kills him.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the [men] told him, Thus shall it be done for the man who kills him. American Standard Version (1901) And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him. Common English Bible Then the troops repeated to him what they had been saying. “So that’s what will be done for the man who kills him,” they said. Catholic Public Domain Version Then the people repeated to him the same words, saying, "These things shall be given to the man who will have struck him down." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the people answered him the same words saying: These things shall be given to the man that shall slay him. |
The Israelites said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. The king will greatly enrich the man who kills him and will give him his daughter and make his family free in Israel.”
He turned away from him toward another and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.