1 Samuel 17:24
New International Version
Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.

New Living Translation
As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright.

English Standard Version
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.

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

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

New King James Version
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid.

New American Standard Bible
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were very fearful.

NASB 1995
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid.

NASB 1977
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now all the men of Israel saw the man, and they fled from him and were greatly afraid.

Amplified Bible
When the men of Israel all saw the man, they fled from him, and were very frightened.

Christian Standard Bible
When all the Israelite men saw Goliath, they retreated from him terrified.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When all the Israelite men saw Goliath, they retreated from him terrified.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the giant, they were afraid, and they fled from before him

Contemporary English Version
When the Israelite soldiers saw Goliath, they were scared and ran off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the Israelites when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him because they were terrified.

Good News Translation
When the Israelites saw Goliath, they ran away in terror.

International Standard Version
When all the Israelis saw the man, they fled from him and were very frightened.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

Literal Standard Version
and all the men of Israel, when they see the man, flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.

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

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

NET Bible
When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated from his presence and were very afraid.

New Revised Standard Version
All the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from him and were very much afraid.

New Heart English Bible
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were exceedingly afraid.

World English Bible
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were terrified.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the men of Israel when they see the man flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.

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Context
David Accepts the Challenge
23And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard. 24When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear. 25Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”…

Cross References
1 Samuel 17:23
And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.

1 Samuel 17:25
Now the men of Israel had been saying, "Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father's house from taxation in Israel."


Treasury of Scripture

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

him [heb] his face

1 Samuel 13:6,7
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits…

sore

1 Samuel 17:11
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Leviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

Numbers 13:33
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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1 Samuel 17
1. The armies of the Israelites and Philistines being ready to battle
4. Goliath challenges a combat
12. David, sent by his father to visit his brothers, takes the challenge
28. Eliab chides him
30. He is brought to Saul
32. shows the reason of his confidence
38. and slays the giant
55. Saul takes notice of David














(24) Fled from him, and were sore afraid.--The student of the history can hardly understand this great fear of a giant Philistine which seems to have come upon the warriors of Saul. When we remember the gallant deeds of the people in former years, it reads like a page out of the story of another race. A dull, cowardly torpor had come over Saul, the punishment for his self-will and disobedience, and the king's helpless lethargy had settled now on the hearts of the soldiers he had trained so well in his earlier and nobler days.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When all
וְכֹל֙ (wə·ḵōl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the men
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

saw Goliath,
בִּרְאוֹתָ֖ם (bir·’ō·w·ṯām)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

they fled
וַיָּנֻ֙סוּ֙ (way·yā·nu·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5127: To flit, vanish away

from him
מִפָּנָ֔יו (mip·pā·nāw)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

in great fear.
וַיִּֽירְא֖וּ (way·yî·rə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten


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