1 Samuel 17:24
Good News Translation
When the Israelites saw Goliath, they ran away in terror.

New Revised Standard Version
All the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from him and were very much afraid.

Contemporary English Version
When the Israelite soldiers saw Goliath, they were scared and ran off.

New American Bible
When the Israelites saw the man, they all retreated before him, terrified.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly.

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And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly.

him [heb] his face

1 Samuel 13:6,7 And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the people were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits. . . .

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1 Samuel 17:11 And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the Philistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Leviticus 26:36 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them.

Numbers 13:33 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

Isaiah 7:2 And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

Isaiah 30:17 A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a hill.

Context
David Accepts the Challenge
23And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was Goliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the camp of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and David heard them, 24And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly.25And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come up, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:23
And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was Goliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the camp of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and David heard them,

1 Samuel 17:25
And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come up, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel.

1 Samuel 17:23
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