1 Samuel 17:35

New American Bible - revised edition

I would chase after it, attack it, and snatch the prey from its mouth. If it attacked me, I would seize it by the throat, strike it, and kill it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:20

Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, a valiant man of mighty deeds, from Kabzeel, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. Also, he went down and killed the lion in the cistern on a snowy day.

Psalm 91:13

You can tread upon the asp and the viper, trample the lion and the dragon.

Daniel 6:22

Daniel answered the king: “O king, live forever!

Amos 3:12

Thus says the Lord: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion a pair of sheep’s legs or the tip of an ear, So shall the Israelites escape, those who dwell in Samaria, With the corner of a couch or a piece of a cot.

1 Samuel 17:34

Then David told Saul: “Your servant used to tend his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or bear came to carry off a sheep from the flock,

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed both a lion and a bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, because he has insulted the armies of the living God.”