1The Philistines mustered their forces for war; they massed at Socoh in Judah and encamped between Socoh and Azekah at Ephes-dammim.
2Saul and the Israelites also mustered, and they encamped in the valley of Elah. They drew up their lines of battle facing the Philistines,
3the Philistines occupying a position on one hill and the Israelites on another, with a valley between them.
4A champion came out from the Philistine camp, a man named Goliath, from Gath; he was over nine feet in height.
5He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore plate armour of bronze, weighing five thousand shekels.
6On his legs were bronze greaves, and one of his weapons was a bronze dagger.
7The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and its head, which was of iron, weighed six hundred shekels. His shield-bearer marched ahead of him.
8The champion stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out to do battle? I am the Philistine champion and you are Saul's men. Choose your man to meet me.
9If he defeats and kills me in fair fight, we shall become your slaves; but if I vanquish and kill him, you will be our slaves and serve us.
10Here and now I challenge the ranks of Israel. Get me a man, and we will fight it out.”
11When Saul and the Israelites heard what the Philistine said, they were all shaken and deeply afraid.
12David was the son of an Ephrathite called Jesse, who had eight sons, and who by Saul's time had become old, well advanced in years.
13His three eldest sons had followed Saul to the war; the eldest was called Eliab, the next Abinadab, and the third Shammah;
14David was the youngest. When the three eldest followed Saul,
15David used to go from attending Saul to minding his father's flocks at Bethlehem.
16Morning and evening for forty days the Philistine came forward and took up his stance.
17Then one day Jesse said to his son David, “Take your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and go with them as quickly as you can to the camp.
18These ten cream-cheeses are for you to take to their commanding officer. See if your brothers are well and bring back some token from them.”
19Saul and the brothers and all the Israelites were in the valley of Elah, fighting the Philistines.
20Early next morning David, having left someone in charge of the sheep, set out on his errand and went as Jesse had told him. He reached the lines just as the army was going out to take up position and was raising the war cry.
21The Israelites and the Philistines drew up their ranks opposite each other.
22David left his things in the charge of the quartermaster, ran to the line, and went up to his brothers to greet them.
23While he was talking with them the Philistine champion, Goliath from Gath, came out from the Philistine ranks and issued his challenge in the same words as before; and David heard him.
24When the Israelites saw the man they fell back before him in fear.
25“Look at this man who comes out day after day to defy Israel,” they said. “The king is to give a rich reward to the man who kills him; he will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from service due in Israel.”
26David asked the men near him, “What is to be done for the man who kills this Philistine and wipes out this disgrace? And who is he, an uncircumcised Philistine, to defy the armies of the living God?”
27The soldiers, repeating what had been said, told him what was to be done for the man who killed him.
28David's elder brother Eliab overheard him talking with the men and angrily demanded, “What are you doing here? And whom have you left to look after those few sheep in the wilderness? I know you, you impudent young rascal; you have only come to see the fighting.”
29David answered, “Now what have I done? I only asked a question.”
30He turned away from him to someone else and repeated his question, but everybody gave him the same answer.
31David's words were overheard and reported to Saul, who sent for him.
32David said to him, “Let no one lose heart! I shall go and fight this Philistine.”
33Saul answered, “You are not able to fight this Philistine; you are only a lad, and he has been a fighting man all his life.”
34David said to Saul, “Sir, I am my father's shepherd; whenever a lion or bear comes and carries off a sheep from the flock,
35I go out after it and attack it and rescue the victim from its jaws. Then if it turns on me, I seize it by the beard and batter it to death.
36I have killed lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine will fare no better than they; he has defied the ranks of the living God.
37The LORD who saved me from the lion and the bear will save me from this Philistine.” “Go then,” said Saul; “and the LORD be with you.”
38He put his own tunic on David, placed a bronze helmet on his head, and gave him a coat of mail to wear;
39he then fastened his sword on David over his tunic. But David held back, because he had not tried them, and said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, because I am not used to them.” David took them off,
40then picked up his stick, chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in a shepherd's bag which served as his pouch, and, sling in hand, went to meet the Philistine.
41The Philistine, preceded by his shield-bearer, came on towards David.
42He looked David up and down and had nothing but disdain for this lad with his ruddy cheeks and bright eyes.
43He said to David, “Am I a dog that you come out against me with sticks?” He cursed him in the name of his god,
44and said, “Come, I shall give your flesh to the birds and the beasts.”
45David answered, “You have come against me with sword and spear and dagger, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel which you have defied.
46The LORD will put you into my power this day; I shall strike you down and cut your head off and leave your carcass and the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds and the wild beasts; the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
47All those who are gathered here will see that the LORD saves without sword or spear; the battle is the LORD's, and he will put you all into our power.”
48When the Philistine began moving closer to attack, David ran quickly to engage him.
49Reaching into his bag, he took out a stone, which he slung and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his head, and he fell prone on the ground.
50So with sling and stone David proved the victor; though he had no sword, he struck down the Philistine and gave him a mortal wound.
51He ran up to the Philistine and stood over him; then, grasping his sword, he drew it out of the scabbard, dispatched him, and cut off his head. When the Philistines saw the fate of their champion, they turned and fled.
52The men of Israel and Judah at once raised the war cry and closely pursued them all the way to Gath and up to the gates of Ekron. The road that runs to Shaaraim, Gath, and Ekron was strewn with their dead.
53On their return from the pursuit of the Philistines, the Israelites plundered their camp.
54David took Goliath's head and carried it to Jerusalem, but he put Goliath's weapons in his own tent.
55As Saul watched David go out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner his commander-in-chief, “That youth there, Abner, whose son is he?” “By your life, your majesty,” replied Abner, “I do not know.”
56The king said, “Go and find out whose son the stripling is.”
57When David came back after killing the Philistine, Abner took him and presented him to Saul with the Philistine's head still in his hand.
58Saul asked him, “Whose son are you, young man?” and David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem.”
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