One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
1 Samuel 17:24 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) All the men of Yisra'el, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, terrified. American Standard Version (1901) And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. Common English Bible When the Israelites saw Goliath, every one of them ran away terrified of him. ( Catholic Public Domain Version Then all the Israelites, when they had seen the man, fled from his face, fearing him greatly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly. |
One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
It was told the house of David, saying, *Syria is allied with Efrayim.* His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
*'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.
There we saw the Nefilim, the sons of `Anak, who come of the Nefilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
When Sha'ul and all Yisra'el heard those words of the Pelishti, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Pelishti of Gat, Golyat by name, out of the ranks of the Pelishtim, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.
The men of Yisra'el said, Have you seen this man who is come up? surely to defy Yisra'el is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Yisra'el.