1 Samuel 17:34
32 And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”
33 But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
35 I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.
36 Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
- KJV
- And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
- WEB
- David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,
- ASV
- And David said unto Saul, Thy servant was keeping his father`s sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
- DARBY
- And David said to Saul, Thy servant fed his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and also a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock.
- BLB
- And David said to Saul, “Your servant has been pasturing the sheep of his father, and the lion or the bear came and carried away a lamb out of the flock,
- ÅB
- Men David svarte Saul: Din tjener voktet småfeet for sin far; kom det da en løve eller en bjørn og tok en sau av flokken,
- OTB
- Men David sa til Saul: "Din tjener passet sin fars sauer. Når en løve eller en bjørn kom og tok et lam fra flokken,
- B1930
- Men David svarte Saul: Din tjener voktet småfeet for sin far; kom det da en løve eller en bjørn og tok et får av hjorden,