9. If he be able to fight with me, and to smite me, then will we be your servants; but if I overcome and smite him, then shall ye be our servants and serve us.
10. And the Philistine said, I have defied the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
11. And Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, and they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-Judah whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.
13. And the three eldest of the sons of Jesse had gone and followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14. And David was the youngest; and the three eldest had followed Saul.
15. But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.