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1. SamuelKapitel 17

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The Philistines gathered their forces for war. They assembled at Socoh in Judah and camped between Socoh and Azekah, at Ephes Dammim.
Saul and the men of Israel gathered as well; they camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their lines to meet the Philistines.
The Philistines held one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them.
Then a champion came out from the Philistine camp. His name was Goliath, from Gath, and he stood six cubits and a span tall.[fn]
He wore a bronze helmet on his head and a coat of scale armor weighing five thousand shekels of bronze.
He had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung across his shoulders.
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. A shield bearer went ahead of him.
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and send him down to me.
If he can fight me and kill me, we will become your servants. But if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our servants and serve us."
And the Philistine said, "This day I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man, and let the two of us fight."
When Saul and all Israel heard the Philistine's words, they were shaken and terrified.
Now David was the son of an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah named Jesse, who had eight sons. In Saul's day Jesse was old, well advanced in years.
Jesse's three oldest sons had gone with Saul to the war. The names of the three who went to battle were Eliab the firstborn, Abinadab the second, and Shammah the third.
David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
For forty days the Philistine came forward morning and evening and took his stand.
Jesse said to his son David, "Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers, and hurry to their camp.
Take these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers are and bring back some token from them.
Saul and your brothers and all the men of Israel are in the Valley of Elah, fighting the Philistines."
Early the next morning David left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had told him. He reached the camp just as the army was moving into position, shouting the battle cry.
Israel and the Philistines drew up their lines facing each other.
David left his supplies with the keeper of the baggage, ran to the battle line, and greeted his brothers.
As he was talking with them, the champion stepped out from the Philistine ranks—Goliath the Philistine from Gath—and shouted his usual challenge, and David heard it.
When the men of Israel saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.
The Israelites had been saying, "Do you see this man who keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father's family from taxes in Israel."
David asked the men standing near him, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the ranks of the living God?"
They repeated to him what they had been saying: "This is what will be done for the man who kills him."
When Eliab, his oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at David and said, "Why have you come down here? And who did you leave those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle."
"What have I done now?" said David. "Can't I even ask a question?"
He turned away to someone else and asked the same thing, and the men gave him the same answer as before.
What David had said was repeated and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him."
Saul replied, "You cannot go out against this Philistine and fight him. You are only a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth."
But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been tending his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
I went after it, struck it down, and rescued the lamb from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by the mane, struck it, and killed it.
Your servant has killed both lion and bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
David went on, "The LORD, who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear, will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go, and may the LORD be with you."
Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and clothed him with a coat of armor.
David strapped Saul's sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not used to it. "I cannot go in these," he said to Saul, "I'm not used to them." So he took them off.
He took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag, and with his sling in his hand approached the Philistine.
The Philistine came steadily closer to David, with his shield bearer ahead of him.
When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him, for he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome.
He said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
"Come here," he said, "and I'll give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field."
David answered, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
This very day the LORD will hand you over to me. I will strike you down and cut off your head, and this day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth. Then the whole earth will know that Israel has a God,
and all who are gathered here will know that the LORD does not save with sword or spear. The battle belongs to the LORD, and he will hand you over to us."
When the Philistine rose and came forward to meet David, David hurried and ran toward the battle line to face the Philistine.
Reaching into his bag, David took out a stone, slung it, and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; he struck him down and killed him, though he had no sword in his hand.
David ran and stood over him, took hold of the Philistine's sword and drew it from its sheath, finished him off, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they fled.
Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath* and to the gates of Ekron. *The Hebrew text reads "Gai"; some ancient witnesses read "Gath."
When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered their camp.
David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put the man's weapons in his own tent.
As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is that young man?" Abner answered, "As surely as you live, my king, I do not know."
"Find out whose son this young man is," the king said.
As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.
"Whose son are you, young man?" Saul asked him. David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem."
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