1 Samuel 17:8
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8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose[a] a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.(A)
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- 17.8 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Samuel 8:17
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17 He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
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1 Chronicles 21:3
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3 But Joab said, “May the Lord increase the number of his people a hundredfold! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”(A)
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2 Samuel 11:11
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11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths,[a] and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing.”(A)
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- 11.11 Or at Succoth
1 Samuel 17:26
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26 David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”(A)
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