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and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span><i>He had</i> a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span><i>He</i> also <i>had</i> bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin <i>slung</i> between his shoulders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>The shaft of his spear was like a weavers beam, and the head of his spear <i>weighed</i> six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Again the Philistine said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>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 <i>in years</i> among men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>David was the youngest. Now the three oldest followed Saul, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his fathers flock at Bethlehem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of <i>their</i> thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>David Accepts the Challenge</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took <i>the supplies</i> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>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 <i>them.</i><p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>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 fathers house free in Israel.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>The people answered him in accord with this word, saying, Thus it will be done for the man who kills him.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliabs 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>But David said, What have I done now? Was it not just a question? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Then he turned away from him to another and said the same thing; and the people answered the same thing as before.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>David Kills Goliath</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>When the words which David spoke were heard, they told <i>them</i> to Saul, and he sent for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>David said to Saul, Let no mans heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Then Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are <i>but</i> a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>But David said to Saul, Your servant was tending his fathers sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued <i>it</i> from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized <i>him</i> by his beard and struck him and killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>And David said, The L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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 L<font size="1">ORD</font> be with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Then Saul clothed David with his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested <i>them.</i> So David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not tested <i>them.</i> And David took them off. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherds bag which he had, even in <i>his</i> pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>Then the Philistine came on and approached David, with the shield-bearer in front of him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was <i>but</i> a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>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 L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>This day the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>and that all this assembly may know that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the L<font size="1">ORDS</font> and He will give you into our hands.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung <i>it,</i> and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>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 Davids hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>The sons of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines and plundered their camps. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>Then David took the Philistines head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>The king said, You inquire whose son the youth is. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistines head in his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/17-58.htm" target="_top"><b>58</b></a></span>Saul said to him, Whose son are you, young man? And David answered, <i>I am</i> the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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