And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And he turned a little aside from him to another: and said the same word. And the people answered him as before.

And he turned from him towards another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And he turneth round from him unto another, and saith according to this word, and the people return him word as the first word.

And turning away from him to one of the other men, he said the same words: and the people gave him the same answer.

And he turned away from him a little, toward another. And he asked the same question. And the people responded to him as before.

And he turned from him towards another,.... From his brother Eliab, to another person right against him, and directed his discourse to him:
and spake after the same manner: as in 1-Samuel 17:26; inquiring what encouragement would he given to a man that should attempt to kill the Philistine, and expressing his concern to hear the armies of the living God defied by such a wretch:
and the people answered him again after the former manner; telling him what gratuities and honours would be conferred on such a person, as in 1-Samuel 17:25; and the design of his talking to one, and to another, was, that what he had said might spread and reach to the ears of Saul, to whom in modesty he did not choose to apply himself.

He tarried - For being secretly moved by God's spirit to undertake the combat. He speaks with divers persons about it, that it might come to the king's ear.