1 Samuel Chapter 17
1 Samuel is the 9th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains 1 Samuel 17:1 to 1 Samuel 17:9.
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1 Samuel 17:1
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.
1 Samuel 17:2
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.
1 Samuel 17:3
The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.
1 Samuel 17:4
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1 Samuel 17:5
He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.
1 Samuel 17:6
He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze javelin slung between his shoulders.
1 Samuel 17:7
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.
1 Samuel 17:8
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.
1 Samuel 17:9
"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."
1 Samuel 17:10
Again the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together."
1 Samuel 17:11
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
1 Samuel 17:12
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.
1 Samuel 17:13
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.
1 Samuel 17:14
David was the youngest. Now the three oldest followed Saul,
1 Samuel 17:15
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:16
The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.
1 Samuel 17:17
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.
1 Samuel 17:18
"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.
1 Samuel 17:19
"For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines."
1 Samuel 17:20
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.
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