1 Samuel 17:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

Eliab's anger

With

1 Samuel 17:20

I know

1 Samuel 16:7

Psalm 35:11

Jude 1:10

General references

Matthew 10:36

Bible References

Eliab's anger

Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,
And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.

Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood,
But who can stand before jealousy?

I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is

vanity and striving after wind.

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

For he knew that because of envy they had handed Him over.

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

With

So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry.

I know

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Malicious witnesses rise up;

They ask me of things that I do not know.

But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

General references

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.