1 Samuel 17:28

Modern English Version

Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart, for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:11

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

Genesis 37:4

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

Genesis 37:8

His brothers said to him, “Will you really reign over us, or will you really have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.

2 Chronicles 11:18

And Rehoboam took Mahalath for a wife, the daughter of both Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,

Psalm 35:11

Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I do not know.

Proverbs 18:19

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and fury is a torrent, but who is able to stand before envy?

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I observed that all labor and skill of work come one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Matthew 10:36

a man’s foes will be those of his own household.’

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that they had handed Him over out of envy.

Mark 3:21

When His family heard of it, they went out to seize Him, for they said, “He is beside Himself.”

Jude 1:10

But these men slander those things that they do not understand. But they destroy themselves in those things that, like unreasoning animals, they know by instinct.

1 Samuel 16:13

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

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord sees not as men see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 17:29

David said, “What have I done now? Was it not only a word?”