1 Samuel 17:31

Bishop's Bible

And they that heard the wordes which Dauid spake, rehearsed them before Saul, which caused him to be fet.

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

New Living Translation
Then David's question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him.

English Revised Version
And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

New Century Version
Yet what David said was told to Saul, and he sent for David.

New English Translation
When David's words were overheard and reported to Saul, he called for him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him.

World English Bible
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

Amplified Bible
When the words that David spoke were heard, the men reported them to Saul, and he sent for him.

English Standard Version
When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe these wordis weren herd, whiche Dauid spak, and weren teld `in the siyt of Saul.

Young's Literal Translation
And the words which David hath spoken are heard, and they declare before Saul, and he receiveth him;

Berean Standard Bible
Now David's words were overheard and reported to Saul, who called for him.

Contemporary English Version
Some soldiers overheard David talking, so they told Saul what David had said. Saul sent for David, and David came.

American Standard Version
And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

Bible in Basic English
And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.

Complete Jewish Bible
David's words were overheard and told to Sha'ul, who summoned him.

Darby Translation
And the words were heard which David spoke, and they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

Easy-to-Read Version
Some men heard David talking. They took David to Saul and told him what David had said.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he was taken to him.

King James Version (1611)
And when the words were heard which Dauid spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

New Life Bible
When David's words were heard, they were told to Saul, and Saul sent for him.

New Revised Standard
When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul; and he sent for him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they that heard the wordes which Dauid spake, rehearsed them before Saul, which caused him to be brought.

George Lamsa Translation
And when the words which David spoke were reported to Saul, he sent for him.

Good News Translation
Some men heard what David had said, and they told Saul, who sent for him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the words which David spake were overheard, - and, when they told them before Saul, he summoned him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed before Saul.

Revised Standard Version
When the words which David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul; and he sent for him.

Christian Standard Bible®
What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, so he had David brought to him.

Hebrew Names Version
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Sha'ul; and he sent for him.

King James Version
And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

Lexham English Bible
Now the words which David had spoken were heard and they reported them to Saul, and he summoned him.

Literal Translation
And the words which David had spoken were heard. And they were told before Saul, and he received him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan they herde the wordes which Dauid sayde, they tolde them in the presence of Saul, and he caused him be fetched.

THE MESSAGE
The things David was saying were picked up and reported to Saul. Saul sent for him.

New American Standard Bible
When the words that David spoke were heard, they informed Saul, and he sent for him.

New King James Version
Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the words which David spoke were heard, they told them to Saul, and he sent for him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the words which David spoke were heard. And they told them to Saul, and he sent for him.

Contextual Overview

³¹ And they that heard the wordes which Dauid spake, rehearsed them before Saul, which caused him to be fet. ³² And Dauid sayde to Saul: Let no mans heart fayle him because of him: Thy seruaunt will go, and fight with yonder Philistine. ³³ And Saul sayde to Dauid againe: Thou art not able to go against yonder Philistine, to fight with him: For thou art but a childe, but he is a man of warre euen from his youth. ³⁴ Dauid aunswered vnto Saul: Thy seruaunt kept his fathers sheepe, & ther came a lion and likewise a beare, and toke a sheepe, out of the flocke: ³⁵ And I went out after him, and smote him, and toke it out of his mouth: And whe he arose against me, I caught him by the bearde, and smote him, and slue him. ³⁶ And so thy seruaunte slue both the lion, and the beare: And trulie this vncircumcised Philistine shalbe as one of them, seing he hath rayled on the hoast of the liuyng God. ³⁷ And Dauid spake moreouer: The Lord that deliuered me out of the hand of the lion, and out of the hande of the beare, he shal deliuer me also out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul sayd vnto Dauid: Go, and the Lorde [shall] be with thee. ³⁸ And Saul put his rayment vpon Dauid, and put an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and put a coate of mayle vpon him. ³⁹ And gyrded Dauid with his owne sword vpon his rayment, and he assayed to go, and because he neuer proued it, Dauid saide vnto Saul: I cannot go with these, for I haue not vsed my selfe thereto. And Dauid put them of him,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent for him: Heb. took him, Proverbs 22:29, The preceding twenty verses, from the 1 Samuel 17:12, to the 1 Samuel 17:31, inclusive, the 1 Samuel 17:41, and from the 1 Samuel 17:54, to the end of this chapter, with the first 1 Samuel 18:1, and the 1 Samuel 18:9, 10th, 11th, 1 Samuel 18:17, 18th, and 19th, of chapter 18, are all wanting in the Vatican copy of the LXX; and they are supposed by Dr. Kennicott, and others, to be an interpolation. But, as Bp. Horsley observes, it appears, from many circumstances of the story, that David's combat with Goliath was many years prior to Saul's madness, and David's introduction to him as a musician. In the first place, David was quite a youth when he engaged with Goliath - 1 Samuel 17:33, and 1 Samuel 17:42. When introduced to Saul he was of full age - 1 Samuel 16:18. Again, this combat was his first appearance in public life, and his first military exploit - 1 Samuel 17:36, 1 Samuel 17:38, 1 Samuel 17:39. When introduced as a musician, he was a man of established character, and a man of war - 1 Samuel 16:18. Now the just conclusion is, that the last ten verses of 1 Samuel 16:14, have been misplaced; their true place being between the ninth and tenth verses of Joshua 18:9. Let them be removed there, and the whole apparent disorder will be removed.

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:58 - Whose son

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the words were heard which David spake,.... To one, and to another, and these reported to other persons, and so they went from one to another through many hands:

they rehearsed [them] before Saul; coming to the ears of some of his courtiers and counsellors, or officers about him, they told him what such an one had said:

and he sent for him; to his tent or pavilion where he was, to talk with him on this subject. The whole of 1 Samuel 17:11 is wanting in the Septuagint version, according to the Vatican exemplar; and these "twenty" verses are thought, by some e, to be an interpolation; and it must be owned there are difficulties in them, and that the connection of 1 Samuel 17:11 with the following is very clear and consistent, as also is 1 Samuel 17:50 left out in the same version; and likewise the last four of the chapter, 1 Samuel 17:55, and five with which the next begins, 1 Samuel 18:1.

e See Dr. Kennicott's Dissert. 2. p. 418, &c.