1 Samuel 17:24

Good News Translation

When the Israelites saw Goliath, they ran away in terror.

Cross References

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand of you will run away when you see one enemy soldier, and five soldiers will be enough to make you all run away. Nothing will be left of your army except a lonely flagpole on the top of a hill.

Isaiah 7:2

When word reached the king of Judah that the armies of Syria were already in the territory of Israel, he and all his people were so terrified that they trembled like trees shaking in the wind.

Leviticus 26:36

“I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.

Numbers 13:33

and we even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that is how we must have looked to them.”

Deuteronomy 32:30

Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The Lord, their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.

1 Samuel 17:11

When Saul and his men heard this, they were terrified.

1 Samuel 17:23

As he was talking with them, Goliath came forward and challenged the Israelites as he had done before. And David heard him.

1 Samuel 17:25

“Look at him!” they said to each other. “Listen to his challenge! King Saul has promised to give a big reward to the man who kills him; the king will also give him his daughter to marry and will not require his father's family to pay taxes.”