strkjv 1Samuel:17:1-18
strkjv@1Samuel:17:1 @ Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim Ephec.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:2 @ And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:3 @ And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:4 @ And there went out a champion H1143out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:5 @ 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.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:6 @ And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:7 @ And the staff of his spear was like a weavers beam; and his spears head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:8 @ 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.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:9 @ 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.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:10 @ And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:11 @ When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:12 @ Now David was the son of that Ephrathite H673of Bethlehemjudah Beyth , whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:13 @ 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 firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:14 @ And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:15 @ But David went and returned from Saul to feed his fathers sheep at Bethlehem Beyth.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:16 @ And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
strkjv@1Samuel:17:17 @ 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;
strkjv@1Samuel:17:18 @ 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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