17Samuel said, |Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;


In Context

14 Samuel said, |Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?|

15 Saul said, |They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.|

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, |Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night.| He said to him, |Say on.|

17 Samuel said, |Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?|

1 Samuel 15:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:17Samuel said, "Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thine own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said, Though thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And Jehovah anointed thee king over Israel;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said, Was it not when thou wast little in thine eyes that thou becamest the head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah anointed thee king over Israel?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said, Though thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thy own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel saith, 'Art not thou, if thou art little in thine own eyes, head of the tribes of Israel? and Jehovah doth anoint thee for king over Israel,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:17And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?