28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men, and Eliab was very angry with David, and said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come down to see the battle.

29 Then David said, What have I now done? Is there not a [a]cause?

30 And he departed from him into the presence of another, and spake of the same manner, and the people answered him according to the former words.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:29 For his father’s sending was a just occasion, and also he felt himself inwardly moved by God’s Spirit.

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