1 Samuel 17:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants, but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

Common English Bible

⁹ If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will become your slaves, but if I overcome him and kill him, then you will become our slaves and you will serve us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If he is able to fight with me and to strike me down, we will be your servants. But if I will prevail over him, and strike him down, you will be the servants, and you will serve us."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants to you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be servants, and shall serve us.

1 Samuel 17:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:12

Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ishbaal son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

1 Samuel 11:1

About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

1 Samuel 17:10

And the Philistine said, “Today I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man, that we may fight together.”