1 Samuel 17 And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which is to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which [is] to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;" ² and Saul and the men of Israel have been gathered, and encamp by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array to meet the Philistines. ³ And the Philistines are standing on the mountain on this side, and the Israelites are standing on the mountain on that side, and the valley [is] between them. ⁴ And there goes out a man of the duelists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath [is] his name, from Gath; his height [is] six cubits and a span, ⁵ and a helmet of brass [is] on his head, and [with] a scaled coat of mail he [is] clothed, and the weight of the coat of mail [is] five thousand shekels of brass, ⁶ and a frontlet of brass [is] on his feet, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders, ⁷ and the wood of his spear [is] like a beam of weavers', and the flame of his spear [is] six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the buckler is going before him. ⁸ And he stands and calls unto the ranks of Israel, and said to them, `Why are you come out to set in array the battle? [am] not I the Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose for you a man, and let him come down unto me;" ⁹ if he be able to fight with me, and have smitten me, then we have been to you for servants; and if I am able for him, and have smitten him, then you have been to us for servants, and have served us.. ¹⁰ And the Philistine said, `I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give to me a man, and we fight together.. ¹¹ And Saul hears--and all Israel--these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid. ¹² And David [is] son of this Ephrathite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name [is] Jesse, and he has eight sons, and the man in the days of Saul has become aged among men;" ¹³ and the three eldest sons of Jesse go, they have gone after Saul to battle; and the name of his three sons who have gone into battle [are] Eliab the first-born, and his second Abinadab, and the third Shammah. ¹⁴ And David is the youngest, and the three eldest have gone after Saul, ¹⁵ and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem. ¹⁶ And the Philistine draws nigh, morning and evening, and stations himself forty days. ¹⁷ And Jesse said to David his son, `Take, I pray you, to your brethren, an ephah of this roasted [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brethren;" ¹⁸ and these ten cuttings of the cheese you do take in to the head of the thousand, and your brethren you do inspect for welfare, and their pledge do receive.. ¹⁹ And Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel [are] in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. ²⁰ And David rises early in the morning, and leaves the flock to a keeper, and lifts up, and goes, as Jesse commanded him, and he comes in to the path, and to the force which is going out unto the rank, and they have shouted for battle;" ²¹ and Israel and the Philistines set in array rank to meet rank. ²² And David lets down the goods from off him on the hand of a keeper of the goods, and runs into the rank, and comes and asks of his brethren of welfare. ²³ And he is speaking with them, and lo, a man of the duelists is coming up, Goliath the Philistine [is] his name, of Gath, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and he speaks according to those words, and David hears;" ²⁴ and all the men of Israel when they see the man flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid. ²⁵ And the men of Israel say, `Have you seen this man who is coming up? for, to reproach Israel he is coming up, and it has been--the man who smites him, the king does enrich him with great riches, and his daughter he does give to him, and his father's house does make free in Israel.. ²⁶ And David speaks unto the men who are standing by him, saying, `What is done to the man who smites this Philistine, and has turned aside reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine that he has reproached the ranks of the living Elohim?. ²⁷ And the people speak to him according to this word, saying, `Thus it is done to the man who smites him.. ²⁸ And Eliab, his eldest brother, hears when he speaks unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burns against David, and he said, `Why [is] this--you have come down! and to whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known your pride, and the evil of your heart--for, to see the battle you have come down.. ²⁹ And David said, `What have I done now? is it not a word?. ³⁰ And he turns round from him unto another, and said according to this word, and the people return him word as the first word. ³¹ And the words which David has spoken are heard, and they declare before Saul, and he receives him;" ³² and David said unto Saul, `Let no man's heart fall because of him, your servant does go, and has fought with this Philistine.. ³³ And Saul said unto David, `You are not able to go unto this Philistine, to fight with him, for a youth you [are], and he a man of war from his youth.. ³⁴ And David said unto Saul, `A shepherd has your servant been to his father among the sheep, and the lion has come--and the bear--and has taken away a sheep out of the drove, ³⁵ and I have gone out after him, and smitten him, and delivered out of his mouth, and he rises against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and smitten him, and put him to death. ³⁶ Both the lion and the bear has your servant smitten, and this uncircumcised Philistine has been as one of them, for he has reproached the ranks of the living Elohim.. ³⁷ And David said, `Yahweh, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He does deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.' And Saul said unto David, `Go, and Yahweh is with you.. ³⁸ And Saul clothes David with his long robe, and has put a helmet of brass on his head, and does clothe him with a coat of mail. ³⁹ And David girded his sword above his long robe, and begins to go, for he has not tried [it]; and David said unto Saul, `I am not able to go with these, for I had not tried;' and David turns them aside from off him. ⁴⁰ And he takes his staff in his hand, and chooses for him five smooth stones from the brook, and puts them in the shepherds' habiliments that he has, even in the scrip, and his sling [is] in his hand, and he draws nigh unto the Philistine. ⁴¹ And the Philistine goes on, going and drawing near unto David, and the man bearing the buckler [is] before him, ⁴² and the Philistine looks attentively, and sees David, and despises him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a fair appearance. ⁴³ And the Philistine said unto David, `Am I a dog that you are coming unto me with staves?' and the Philistine reviles David by his elohims, ⁴⁴ and the Philistine said unto David, `Come unto me, and I give your flesh to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the field.. ⁴⁵ And David said unto the Philistine, `You are coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming unto you in the name of Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of the ranks of Israel, which you have reproached. ⁴⁶ This day does Yahweh shut you up into my hand--and I have smitten you, and turned aside your head from off you, and given the carcase of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth do know that Elohim is for Israel. ⁴⁷ and all this assembly do know that not by sword and by spear does Yahweh save, that the battle [is] Yahweh's, and He has given you into our hand.. ⁴⁸ And it has come to pass, that the Philistine has risen, and goes, and draws near to meet David, and David hastes and runs to the rank to meet the Philistine, ⁴⁹ and David puts forth his hand unto the vessel, and takes thence a stone, and slings, and smites the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sinks into his forehead, and he falls on his face to the earth. ⁵⁰ And David is stronger than the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smites the Philistine, and puts him to death, and there is no sword in the hand of David, ⁵¹ and David runs and stands over the Philistine, and takes his sword, and draws it out of its sheath, and puts him to death, and cuts off with it his head; and the Philistines see that their hero [is] dead, and flee. ⁵² And the men of Israel rise--also Judah--and shout, and pursue the Philistines till you enter the valley, and unto the gates of Ekron, and the wounded of the Philistines fall in the way of Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron, ⁵³ and the sons of Israel turn back from burning after the Philistines, and spoil their camps. ⁵⁴ And David takes the head of the Philistine, and brings it in to Jerusalem, and his weapons he has put in his own tent. ⁵⁵ And when Saul sees David going out to meet the Philistine, he has said unto Abner, head of the host, `Whose son [is] this--the youth, Abner?' and Abner said, `Your soul lives, O king, I have not known.. ⁵⁶ And the king said, `Ask you whose son this [is] --the young man.. ⁵⁷ And when David turns back from smiting the Philistine, then Abner takes him and brings him in before Saul, and the head of the Philistine in his hand;" ⁵⁸ and Saul said unto him, `Whose son [are] you, O youth?' and David said, `Son of your servant Jesse, the Beth-Lehemite..