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.
32. David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
33. Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him. For you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”
34. David said to Saul, “Your servant was a shepherd for my father’s flock, and the lion came and the bear, and took a lamb out of the flock.