09:016:021 And David came to Saul, and stood before
him: and he loved him
greatly;
and he became his armourbearer.
09:016:022 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David,
I pray thee, stand
before
me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
09:016:023 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit
from God was upon
Saul,
that David took an harp, and played with his hand:
so
Saul
was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed
from
him.
09:017:001 Now the Philistines gathered together their
armies to battle,
and
were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth
to
Judah,
and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
09:017:002 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered
together, and
pitched
by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array
against
the Philistines.
09:017:003 And the Philistines stood on a mountain
on the one side, and
Israel
stood on a mountain on the other side: and there
was a
valley
between them.
09:017:004 And there went out a champion out of the
camp of the
Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six
cubits
and a span.
09:017:005 And he had an helmet of brass upon his
head, and he was armed
with
a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five
thousand
shekels of brass.
09:017:006 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs,
and a target of
brass
between his shoulders.
09:017:007 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s
beam; and his
spear’s
head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and
one
bearing
a shield went before him.
09:017:008 And he stood and cried unto the armies
of Israel, and said
unto
them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array?
am
not
I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you
a man
for
you, and let him come down to me.
09:017:009 If he be able to fight with me, and to
kill me, then will we
be
your servants: but if I prevail against him, and
kill him,
then
shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
09:017:010 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies
of Israel this day;
give
me a man, that we may fight together.
09:017:011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words
of the Philistine,
they
were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
09:017:012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite
of Bethlehemjudah,
whose
name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the
man went
among
men for an old man in the days of Saul.
09:017:013 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went
and followed Saul to
the
battle: and the names of his three sons that went
to the
battle
were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab,
and
the third Shammah.


