1 Samuel 17:24

Modern

When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.

Traditional

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

Literal

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were greatly afraid.

Latin

Omnes autem Israëlitæ, cum vidissent virum, fugerunt a facie ejus, timentes eum valde.

Hebrew

English

When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.

Theme notes and profiles

1 Samuel 17:11
On hearing the words of the Philistine, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and greatly afraid.
Isaiah 7:2
When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
Leviticus 26:36
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
1 Samuel 13:6–7
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
Isaiah 30:17
A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes