1 Samuel 17:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth-lehem.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ but David went back and forth from Saul’s side to shepherd his father’s flock in Bethlehem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ David went away from Saul, and he returned, so that he might pasture the flock of his father at Bethlehem.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:15 Cross References

1 Samuel 16:11

Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

1 Samuel 17:16

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

1 Samuel 17:34

But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father, and whenever a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

1 Samuel 18:2

Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.