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Goliath’s Challenge
Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
Goliath Challenges the Israelites
The Philistines now mustered their army for battle and camped between Socoh in Judah and Azekah at Ephes-dammim.
The Philistines now mustered their army for battle and camped between Socoh in Judah and Azekah at Ephes-dammim.
Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines.
Saul countered by gathering his Israelite troops near the valley of Elah.
The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.
So the Philistines and Israelites faced each other on opposite hills, with the valley between them.
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.
He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders.
He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder.
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him.
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.
Goliath 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!
“If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us.”
If he kills me, then we will be your slaves. But if I kill him, you will be our slaves!
Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.”
I defy the armies of Israel today! Send me a man who will fight me!”
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken.
Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.
Jesse Sends David to Saul’s Camp
Now 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.
The three older sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
David was the youngest. Now the three oldest followed Saul,
David was the youngest son. David’s three oldest brothers stayed with Saul’s army,
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock at Bethlehem.
but David went back and forth so he could help his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.
The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.
For forty days, every morning and evening, the Philistine champion strutted in front of the Israelite army.
Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers.
“Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them.
“For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”
David’s brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.
David Accepts the Challenge
So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry.
So David left the sheep with another shepherd and set out early the next morning with the gifts, as Jesse had directed him. He arrived at the camp just as the Israelite army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts and battle cries.
Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army.
Soon the Israelite and Philistine forces stood facing each other, army against army.
Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers.
David left his things with the keeper of supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers.
As he was talking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath, was coming up from the army of the Philistines, and he spoke these same words; and David heard them.
As 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.
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid.
As soon as the Israelite army saw him, they began to run away in fright.
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
“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!”
Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?”
David 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?”
The people answered him in accord with this word, saying, “Thus it will be done for the man who kills him.”
And these men gave David the same reply. They said, “Yes, that is the reward for killing him.”
Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”
But 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!”
But David said, “What have I done now? Was it not just a question?”
“What have I done now?” David replied. “I was only asking a question!”
Then he turned away from him to another and said the same thing; and the people answered the same thing as before.
He walked over to some others and asked them the same thing and received the same answer.
David Kills Goliath
When the words which David spoke were heard, they told them to Saul, and he sent for him.
Then David’s question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him.
David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
David Kills Goliath
“Don’t worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I’ll go fight him!”
Then Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth.”
“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.”
But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,
But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father’s sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,
I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
I 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.
“Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has taunted the armies of the living God.”
I 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!
And David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may the LORD be with you.”
The LORD who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
Saul finally consented. “All right, go ahead,” he said. “And may the LORD be with you!”
Saul finally consented. “All right, go ahead,” he said. “And may the LORD be with you!”
Then Saul clothed David with his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor.
Then Saul gave David his own armor — a bronze helmet and a coat of mail.
David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. So David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” And David took them off.
David put it on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before.
“I can’t go in these,” he protested to Saul. “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off again.
“I can’t go in these,” he protested to Saul. “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off again.
He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.
He 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.
Then the Philistine came on and approached David, with the shield-bearer in front of him.
Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him,
When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance.
sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy.
The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
“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.
The Philistine also said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.”
“Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.
David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies — the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
“This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
Today the LORD will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!
and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD’S and He will give you into our hands.”
And everyone assembled here will know that the LORD rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the LORD’s battle, and he will give you to us!”
Then it happened when the Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, that David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.
As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him.
And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground.
Reaching 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.
Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David’s hand.
So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword.
Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
Then David ran over and pulled Goliath’s sword from its sheath. David used it to kill him and cut off his head.
Israel Routs the Philistines
When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran.
Israel Routs the Philistines
When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran.
The men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted and pursued the Philistines as far as the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the slain Philistines lay along the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and Ekron.
The sons of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines and plundered their camps.
Then the Israelite army returned and plundered the deserted Philistine camp.
Then David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.
(David took the Philistine’s head to Jerusalem, but he stored the man’s armor in his own tent.)
Now when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” And Abner said, “By your life, O king, I do not know.”
As Saul watched David go out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?”
“I really don’t know,” Abner declared.
“I really don’t know,” Abner declared.
The king said, “You inquire whose son the youth is.”
“Well, find out who he is!” the king told him.
So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine’s head in his hand.
As soon as David returned from killing Goliath, Abner brought him to Saul with the Philistine’s head still in his hand.