1 Samuel 17:56 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁶ The king said, “Inquire whose son the young man is.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁶ And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁶ And the king said, Inquire whose son the stripling is.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁶ And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.

Common English Bible

⁵⁶ “Then find out whose son that young man is,” the king replied.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁶ And the king said, "You shall inquire as to whose son this boy may be."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁶ And the king said: Inquire thou, whose son this man is.

1 Samuel 17:56 Cross References

1 Samuel 17:33

Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

1 Samuel 17:55

When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”

1 Samuel 17:57

On David’s return from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.