1 Samuel 17:1-22 ▼

1 And the rovers will gather together their camps for war, and they will gather together at Shocoth, which is to Judah, and they will encamp between Shocoth and between Azekah, in the end of Damim.

2 And Saul and the man Israel were gathered together, and they will encamp in the valley of Elah, and they arranged the battle to meet the rovers.

3 And the rovers standing on the mountain from hence, and Israel standing on the mountain from thence, and the valley between them.

4 And there went forth a man of the sons of the camp of the rovers, Goliah his name, from Gath; his height six cubits and a span.

5 And a helmet of brass upon his head, and a coat of mail of scales he put on; and the weight of the coat of mail five thousand shekels of brass.

6 And brass fronts upon his feet, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.

7 And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

8 And he will stand and call to the ranks of Israel, and say to them, Wherefore will ye come forth to arrange the battle? am not I of the rovers, and ye servants to Saul? select to yourselves a man, and he shall come down to me.

9 If he shall be able to war with me and strike me, and we were to you for servants: and if I shall be able against him and strike him, and ye were to us for servants, and ye served us.

10 And he of the rovers will say, I upbraided the ranks of Israel this day; ye shall give to me a man and we will fight together.

11 And Saul will hear and all Israel, these words of him of the rovers, and they will be terrified and greatly afraid.

12 And David, son of a man, that Ephrathite, of the House of Bread of Judah, and his name Jesse; and to him eight sons; and the man in the days of Saul went an old man among men.

13 And three sons of Jesse, the great ones, going, went after Saul to war: and the names of his three sons which went in the war, Eliab the first-born and his second, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.

14 And David, he the small; and the three great ones went after Saul.

15 And David went and turned back from Saul to feed his father's sheep at the House of Bread.

16 And he of the rovers will draw near, the morning and the evening, and he will take a stand forty days.

17 And Jesse will say to David his son, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and this ten of bread, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

18 And these ten cuttings of milk thou shalt bring to the chief of a thousand; and thou shalt review thy brethren for peace, and take their pledge.

19 And Saul, and they, and every man of Israel, in the valley of Elah, warring with the rovers.

20 And David will rise early in the morning, and will cast the sheep upon a watcher, and he will lift up and go as Jesse commanded him; and he will come to the track, and the army going forth to the array and they shouted in the war.

21 And Israel will arrange, and the rovers, array to meet array.

22 And David will cast the utensils from off him upon the hand of the watcher of the utensils, and be will run to the array, and will come and ask to his brethren for peace.