1 Samuel 17:54
Good News Translation
David got Goliath's head and took it to Jerusalem, but he kept Goliath's weapons in his own tent.

New Revised Standard Version
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.

Contemporary English Version
David took Goliath's head to Jerusalem, but he kept Goliath's weapons in his own tent.

New American Bible
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he kept Goliath’s armor in his own tent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.

took the head

1 Samuel 21:9 And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here there is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.

Exodus 16:33 And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto your generations,

Joshua 4:7,8 You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever. . . .

Context
David Slays Goliath
53And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the Philistines, fell upon their camp. 54And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.55Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O king, I know not.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:53
And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the Philistines, fell upon their camp.

1 Samuel 17:55
Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O king, I know not.

1 Samuel 17:57
And when David was returned, after the Philistine was slain, Abner took him, and brought him in before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

1 Samuel 21:9
And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here there is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.

1 Samuel 17:53
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