^{1 Ref} And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which `is' to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;

^{2 Ref} and Saul and the men of Israel have been gathered, and encamp by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array to meet the Philistines.

³ And the Philistines are standing on the mountain on this side, and the Israelites are standing on the mountain on that side, and the valley `is' between them.

^{4 Ref} And there goeth out a man of the duellists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath `is' his name, from Gath; his height `is' six cubits and a span,

⁵ and a helmet of brass `is' on his head, and `with' a scaled coat of mail he `is' clothed, and the weight of the coat of mail `is' five thousand shekels of brass,

^{6 Ref} and a frontlet of brass `is' on his feet, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders,

^{7 Ref} and the wood of his spear `is' like a beam of weavers', and the flame of his spear `is' six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the buckler is going before him.

^{8 Ref} And he standeth and calleth unto the ranks of Israel, and saith to them, `Why are ye come out to set in array the battle? `am' not I the Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose for you a man, and let him come down unto me;

^{9 Ref} if he be able to fight with me, and have smitten me, then we have been to you for servants; and if I am able for him, and have smitten him, then ye have been to us for servants, and have served us.'

^{10 Ref} And the Philistine saith, `I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give to me a man, and we fight together.'

^{11 Ref} And Saul heareth -- and all Israel -- these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid.

^{12 Ref} And David `is' son of this Ephrathite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name `is' Jesse, and he hath eight sons, and the man in the days of Saul hath become aged among men;

^{13 Ref} and the three eldest sons of Jesse go, they have gone after Saul to battle; and the name of his three sons who have gone into battle `are' Eliab the first-born, and his second Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

^{14 Ref} And David is the youngest, and the three eldest have gone after Saul,

^{15 Ref} and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.

^{16 Ref} And the Philistine draweth nigh, morning and evening, and stationeth himself forty days.

^{17 Ref} And Jesse saith to David his son, `Take, I pray thee, to thy brethren, an ephah of this roasted `corn', and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

^{18 Ref} and these ten cuttings of the cheese thou dost take in to the head of the thousand, and thy brethren thou dost inspect for welfare, and their pledge dost receive.'