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And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath,
whose height
was
six cubits and a span.
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And
he had
an 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.
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And
he
had
greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
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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.
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And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said
unto them, Why are 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.
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If he be able to fight with me,
and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall
ye be our servants, and serve us.
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And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give
me a man, that we may fight together.
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When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12
Now David
was
the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name
was
Jesse; and
he had eight sons: and the man went among men
for
an old man in the days of Saul.
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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 unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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And David
was
the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
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But David went and returned
from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
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And the Philistine drew near morning and
evening, and presented himself forty days.
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And Jesse said unto 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;
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And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of
their
thousand, and look how thy brethren fare,
and take their pledge.
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Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel,
were
in the valley of Elah,
fighting with the Philistines.
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And David rose up 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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For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against
army.
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And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army,
and came and saluted his brethren.
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And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the
champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake
according to the same words: and David heard
them.
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And all the men of Israel, when they saw
the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
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And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man
that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be,
that
the man who killeth him,
the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s
house free in Israel.
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And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done
to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who
is
this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
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And the people
answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
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