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1 The Philistines geathered their hoste to battel, and came together to Socoth which is in Iuda, and pitched betwene Sococh & Azekah, in the coast of Dammin.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel came together, and pitched in the Oke valley, and put them selues in araye, to fyght agaynst the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stode on an hyll on the one syde, and Israel stode on an hyll on the other syde; and there was a valeye betwene them:
4 And there came a man betwene them both, out of the tentes of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath syxe cubytes and an handbredth longe,
5 and had an helmet of brasse vpon hys heed, and a coate of mayle about hym. And the weyght of hys coate of mayle was fyue thousande sykles of brasse.
6 And he had bootes of brasse vpon his legges, and a shylde of brasse vpon his shoulders.
7 And the shafte of his spere was like a weuers beame. And his speare heed weyed .vj. hundred sikles of yron. And one bearynge a shylde went before hym.
8 And he stode and cryed agaynst the hoste of Israel, & sayde vnto them: Why are ye come out in araye to battell? am not I a Philistine and you seruauntes to Saul? chose you a man from amonge you, & lett him come downe to me.
9 And yf he be able to fyght with me, & to beate me, then will we be youre seruauntes. But yf I can ouercome him and beate him, then shall ye be oure seruauntes, & serue vs.
10 And the Philistine sayde: I defye the host of Israel this daye, geue me a man, that we maye fight together:
11 When Saul and all Israel hearde those wordes of the Philistine, they were discouraged, & greatly afrayed.
12 Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Iuda, named Isai, whych had eight sonnes. And was an olde man in the dayes of Saul, and came to age amonge men.
13 And the thre eldest sonnes of Isai went, and folowed Saul to the battell. And the names of hys thre sonnes that went to battell, were: Eliab the eldest, & the next, Abinadab, and the thyrde Samma,
14 and Dauid was the least. And the thre eldest went after Saul.
15 Dauid also went and departed from Saul, to fede his fathers shepe at Bethlehem.
16 And the Philistine came forth in the mornynge and euenynge, and continued fourtye dayes.
17 And Isai sayde vnto Dauid his sonne take for thy brethren an Epha of this parched corne and these ten loaues, and brynge it vnto the hoste to thy brethren.
18 And carye these ten freshe cheses vnto the captayne, & loke howe thy brethren fare, and fett out their pledge.