1 Samuel 17:24

New American Bible - revised edition

When the Israelites saw the man, they all retreated before him, terrified.

Cross References

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand shall tremble at the threat of one— if five threaten, you shall flee. You will then be left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a flag on a hill.

Isaiah 7:2

When word came to the house of David that Aram had allied itself with Ephraim, the heart of the king and heart of the people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind.

Leviticus 26:36

Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them;

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”

1 Samuel 17:11

When Saul and all Israel heard this challenge of the Philistine, they were stunned and terrified. David Comes to the Camp.

1 Samuel 17:23

While he was talking with them, the Philistine champion, by name Goliath of Gath, came up from the ranks of the Philistines and spoke as before, and David listened.

1 Samuel 17:25

The Israelites had been saying: “Do you see this man coming up? He comes up to insult Israel. The king will make whoever kills him a very wealthy man. He will give his daughter to him and declare his father’s family exempt from taxes in Israel.”