13. 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 to him Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
14. As for David, he was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,
15. but David would go back and forth from Saul to shepherd his father’s flock in Bethlehem.
16. The Philistine stepped forward morning and evening and took his stand daily for forty days.
17. Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers.
18. Carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look into your brothers’ health, and bring back news of them.”
19. Now Saul, and they, and all Israel’s fighting men were in the Valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines.
20. So David rose up early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper. And he carried away the food and went as Jesse had commanded him. And when he came to the encampment, the army was going out to the battle line, and they shouted a war cry.
21. And Israel and the Philistines ordered themselves in battle lines, army against army.
22. David left his things with the keeper of the equipment, and he ran to the battle line. And he went and greeted his brothers.
23. As he was speaking with them, the champion, Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was going up from the battle line of the Philistines. And he spoke these same words and David heard them.
24. When all Israel’s fighting men saw the man, they fled from him, and were very afraid.
25. The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel, and it will be that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house exempt from taxes in Israel.”
26. David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, “What will be done for the man that kills this Philistine and takes away this reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
27. And the people answered him in the same way, saying, “So will it be done to the man who kills him.”
28. Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart. For you have come down that you might see the battle.”
29. David said, “What have I done now? Was it not only a word?”
30. And he turned from him toward another and spoke in the same way. And the people answered him again as at the first.
31. When the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul and he sent for him.