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1 Samuel - ch 17 v 1 - 20
- Now the Philistines collected their armies to battle, and were assembled at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and encamped between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
- And Saul and the men of Israel were assembled and encamped by the valley of Elah, and they set the battle in array against the Philistines.
- And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
- And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose hight was six cubits and a span.
- And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
- And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
- And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
- And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
- If he shall be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I shall prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
- And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
- When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
- Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
- And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
- And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
- But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
- And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
- And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
- And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
- Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
- And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
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