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³So the Philistines and Israelites faced each other on opposite hills, with the valley between them. ⁵He wore a bronze helmet, and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds.#17:5 Hebrew 5, 000 shekels [57 kilograms]. ⁶He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. ⁷The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver’s beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds.#17:7 Hebrew 600 shekels [6.8 kilograms]. His armor bearer walked ahead of him carrying a shield. ⁸Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites. “Why are you all coming out to fight?” he called. “I am the Philistine champion, but you are only the servants of Saul. Choose one man to come down here and fight me! ¹⁰I defy the armies of Israel today! Send me a man who will fight me!” ¹¹When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken. ¹²Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons. ¹³Jesse’s three oldest sons - Eliab, Abinadab, and Shimea#17:13 Hebrew Shammah, a variant spelling of Shimea; compare 1 Chr 2:13; 20:7. - had already joined Saul’s army to fight the Philistines. ¹⁴David was the youngest son. David’s three oldest brothers stayed with Saul’s army, ¹⁵but David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem. ¹⁷One day Jesse said to David, “Take this basket#17:17 Hebrew ephah [20 quarts or 22 liters]. of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and carry them quickly to your brothers. ¹⁸And give these ten cuts of cheese to their captain. See how your brothers are getting along, and bring back a report on how they are doing.#17:18 Hebrew and take their pledge.”

¹⁹David’s brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines. ²¹Soon the Israelite and Philistine forces stood facing each other, army against army. ²²David left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers. ²³As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, came out from the Philistine ranks. Then David heard him shout his usual taunt to the army of Israel. ²⁴As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright. ²⁵“Have you seen the giant?” the men asked. “He comes out each day to defy Israel. The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him. He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man’s entire family will be exempted from paying taxes!” ²⁶David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?” ²⁷And these men gave David the same reply. They said, “Yes, that is the reward for killing him.” ²⁸But when David’s oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry. “What are you doing around here anyway?” he demanded. “What about those few sheep you’re supposed to be taking care of? I know about your pride and deceit. You just want to see the battle!” ³¹Then David’s question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him. ³²“Don’t worry about this Philistine, ” David told Saul. “I’ll go fight him!” ³³“Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.” ³⁵I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. ³⁶I have done this to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God! ³⁸Then Saul gave David his own armor - a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. ⁴⁰He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag. Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine. ⁴¹Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, ⁴²sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. ⁴³“Am I a dog, ” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?” And he cursed David by the names of his gods. ⁴⁹Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground. ⁵⁰So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword. ⁵⁷As soon as David returned from killing Goliath, Abner brought him to Saul with the Philistine’s head still in his hand.

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