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There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
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He had brass shin-armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.
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The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield-bearer went before him.
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He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
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If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall you be our servants, and serve us.
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The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
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When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
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Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.
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The three eldest 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 next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
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Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
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The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
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Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;
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and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge.
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Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
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David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
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Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
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David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
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As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.
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All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
