1 Samuel 17:56
54 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.
55 As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
57 So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.
58 “Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
- KJV
- And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
- WEB
- The king said, “Inquire whose son the young man is!”
- ASV
- And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
- DARBY
- And the king said, Inquire thou whose son this youth is.
- BLB
- And the king said, “Inquire you, the son of whom this [is]—the young man.”
- ÅB
- Da sa kongen: Spør etter hvem denne gutt er sønn til.
- OTB
- Kongen sa: "Undersøk hvis sønn den unge mannen er."
- B1930
- Da sa kongen: Spør efter hvem denne gutt er sønn til.