The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Samuel | 17 | (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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (3) 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (4) 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (5) 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (6) And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (7) 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (8) 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (10) And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (11) When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (12) Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (13) 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (14) And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (15) But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (16) And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (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; | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (18) And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (19) Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (20) And David rose up eariy 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. | |
| I Samuel | 17 | (21) For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army. | |