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11 When Saul and all Israel heard what the Philistine said, they were distressed and terrified.[a]

12 Now David was Jesse’s son, an Ephraimite from Bethlehem in Judah who had eight sons. By Saul’s time, Jesse was already quite old and far along in age.[b] 13 Jesse’s three oldest sons had gone with Saul to war. Their names were Eliab the oldest, Abinadab the second oldest, and Shammah the third oldest.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:11 The following verses are absent from LXXB: 17:12-31, 41, 48b, 50, 55-58.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:12 LXX, Syr

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