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.
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 I not a Philistine, and ye slaves to Saul? Choose a man from among you, and let him come down to me.
9. If he is able to fight with me and to overcome me, then will we be your slaves, but if I prevail against him and overcome him, then ye shall be our slaves and serve us.
10. And the Philistine said, I have dishonoured the ranks of Israel today; 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. And David was the son of an Ephrathite man of Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons, and this man was old in the days of Saul and of advanced age among men.
13. And the three eldest 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 next unto him Abinadab and the third Shammah.
14. And David was the youngest, the three eldest having gone after Saul.
15. But David had gone and returned from being with Saul to feed his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
16. And the Philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself for forty days.
17. And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to thy brethren
18. and carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand and look how thy brethren fare and take their pledge.
19. Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.
20. And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took and went with his burden as Jesse had commanded him, and he came to the trench as the host was going forth in battle array, and they had already sounded the alarm for the battle.
21. For Israel and the Philistines had ordered the battle, army against army.