1 Samuel 19:16 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And the messengers come in, and lo, the teraphim [are] on the bed, and the mattress of goats` [hair], [for] his pillows.

English ASV

And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats hair at the head thereof.

English Amplified

And when the messengers came in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair at its head.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And when the messengers came in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair at its head.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

When the agents arrived, to their surprise, the household idol was on the bed with some goat hair on its head.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And the messengers came in, and behold, the image was in the bed, and the net of goats' [hair] at its head.

English EASY 2024

The men returned to David's house. They found the idol on the bed and the pillow of goat's hair at its head.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

The messengers went to David's house. They went inside to get him, but they saw it was only a statue and that its hair was only goat's hair.

And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

They went inside and found the household idol in the bed and the goats' hair pillow at its head.

English God's Word - GW 1995

The messengers came, and there in the bed were the idols with the goat-hair blanket at its head.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

When the messengers arrived, to their surprise, the household idol was on the bed with some goats' hair on its head.

English KJV 1611

And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.

English LSB

The messengers came, and behold, the household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

When the messengers came in, behold, there was the idol in the bed with a goat hair pillow for its head.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

When the messengers entered, behold, the household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats' hair at its head.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

But when the messengers entered, they found the household idol in the bed, with the net of goat's hair at its head.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

But when the men entered, they found nothing but the statue in the bed. Some goat hair was at the place where David's head would have been.

English NIV

But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats' hair.

English NKJ 1982

And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head.

English NLT

But when they came to carry David out, they discovered that it was only an idol in the bed with a cushion of goat's hair at its head.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats' hair on its head.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

But when they came to carry him out, they discovered that it was only an idol!

English Tyndale 1537

And when the messengers were come in: Behold there lay an Image in the bed, with a pillow of goat's hair under the head of it.

1 Samuel 19:16 — Compare Translations