1 Samuel 17:28

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

David’s eldest brother Eliab listened as he spoke to the men, and he became angry with him.  ‘Why did you come down here? ’ he asked. ‘Who did you leave those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know your arrogance and your evil heart #– #you came down to see the battle! ’

Cross References

Matthew 10:36

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.   ,

Proverbs 18:19

An offended brother is harder to reach than a fortified city, and quarrels are like the bars of a fortress.

Genesis 37:11

His brothers were jealous of him,  but his father kept the matter in mind.

Genesis 37:8

‘Are you really going to reign over us? ’ his brothers asked him. ‘Are you really going to rule us? ’ So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

Genesis 37:4

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.

Mark 3:21

When his family  heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, ‘He’s out of his mind.’

Jude 1:10

But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew it was because of envy that they had handed him over.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I saw that all labour and all skilful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Proverbs 27:4

Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

1 Samuel 16:13

So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him  in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully on David from that day forward.  Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look at his appearance or his stature because I have rejected him. Humans do not see what the Lord sees,  for humans see what is visible, but the Lord sees the heart.’

1 Samuel 17:29

‘What have I done now? ’ protested David. ‘It was just a question.’

2 Chronicles 11:18

Rehoboam married Mahalath, daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.