MSTC(i)
1 The Philistines gathered their host to battle, and came together to Socoh in Judah, and pitched between Socoh and Azekah, in the end of Dammim.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel came and pitched in Oakdale and put themselves in array, to fight against the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stood on a hill on the one side, and Israel stood on a hill on the other side; and a valley between them.
4 And then came a man and stood in the midst, out of the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: six cubits and a handbreadth long,
5 and had a helmet of brass upon his head, and a coat of mail about him. And the weight of his coat of mail was five thousand sicles of brass.
6 And he had a harness of brass upon his legs, and a shield of brass upon his shoulders.
7 And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam. And his spearhead weighed six hundred sicles of iron. And one bearing a shield went before him.
8 And he stood and called unto the host of Israel, and said unto them, "What needeth that ye should come out in array to battle? Am not I a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose you a man, and let him come down to me:
9 if he be able to fight with me and to beat me, then we will be your servants. But if I can overcome him and beat him, then ye shall be our servants and serve us."
10 And the Philistine said, "I have defied the host of Israel this day; give me a man and let us fight together."
11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were discouraged and greatly afraid.
12 And this David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, named Jesse; which Jesse had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul among the people.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to battle. And the names of his three sons that went to battle were: Eliab the eldest, and the next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14 And David was the youngest. And when the three eldest were gone after Saul,
15 David went and departed from Saul, to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16 And the Philistine came forth every morning and evening, and continued forty days.
17 And Jesse said unto David his son, "Take for thy brethren this ephah of parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the host, to thy brethren.
18 And carry these ten fresh cheeses unto the captain, and look how thy brethren fare, and set out their pledges."