him.
1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at
Shochoh, which belongethto Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
2 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.
3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the
other side: and there wasa valley between them.
4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath,
whose height wassix cubits and a span.
5 And he hadan helmet of brass upon his head, and he wasarmed with a coat of mail; and the
weight of the coat wasfive thousand shekels of brass.
6 And he hadgreaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
7 And the staff of his spear waslike a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighedsix hundred
shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to
set yourbattle in array? amnot I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for
you, and let him come down to me.
9 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.
10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may
fight together.
11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and
greatly afraid.
12 Now David wasthe son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name wasJesse; and he
had eight sons: and the man went among men foran old man in the days of Saul.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went andfollowed Saul to the battle: and the names of
his three sons that went to the battle wereEliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and
the third Shammah.
14 And David wasthe youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn,
and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of theirthousand, and look how thy brethren
fare, and take their pledge.
19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, werein the valley of Elah, fighting with the
Philistines.
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went,
as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the
fight, and shouted for the battle.
21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army,
and came and saluted his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath,
Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words:
and David heard them.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is
he come up: and it shall be, thatthe man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great

riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that
killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who isthis uncircumcised
Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that
killeth him.
28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled
against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those
few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art
come down that thou mightest see the battle.
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is therenot a cause?
30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people
answered him again after the former manner.
31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed thembefore Saul: and he
sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight
with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for
thou art buta youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a
bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered itout of his mouth: and when he
arose against me, I caught himby his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as
one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the
paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David,
Go, and the LORD be with thee.
38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he
armed him with a coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it.
And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them
off him.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put
them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling wasin his hand: and he drew
near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went
before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was buta
youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
43 And the Philistine said unto David, AmI a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the
Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the
air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and
with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom thou hast defied.
46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine
head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the

fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a
God in Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the
battle isthe LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that
David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the
Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the
earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the
Philistine, and slew him; but there wasno sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of
the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw
their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until
thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down
by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their
tents.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour
in his tent.
55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of
the host, Abner, whose son isthis youth? And Abner said, Asthy soul liveth, O king, I cannot
tell.
56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him
before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son artthou, thouyoung man? And David answered, I amthe son
of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan
was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that wasupon him, and gave it to David, and his
garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, andbehaved himself wisely: and Saul set
him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the
sight of Saul's servants.
6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king
Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
7 And the women answered one anotheras they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands,
and David his ten thousands.
8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto
David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed butthousands: and whatcan he have more but
the kingdom?
9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he
prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and