1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.
Note LXX and Syriac; Hebrew He had become advanced among men
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- David
- 1 Samuel 17:58; 1 Samuel 16:1, 18; Ruth 4:22; Matthew 1:6; Luke 3:31, 32
- Ephrathite
- Genesis 35:19; Psalm 132:6; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1, 6
- eight sons
- 1 Samuel 16:10, 11; 1 Chronicles 2:13–16