1 Samuel 17:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.”
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“Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and these ten cuttings of the cheese thou dost take in to the head of the thousand, and thy brethren thou dost inspect for welfare, and their pledge dost receive.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 17:18 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 37:14Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- Exodus 18:7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
- Judges 18:15So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
- 1 Samuel 16:20And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.
- 1 Samuel 25:5So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
- 1 Samuel 30:21When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,
- 2 Samuel 17:29honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
- Esther 2:11And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.
- Job 10:10Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
- Acts 15:36Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
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