6. He had greaves of bronze on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.
7. The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam. His iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels. And a shield-bearer was walking before him.
8. He stood and called out to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am not I the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man and let him come down to me.
9. If he is able to fight with me and to strike me down, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, then you will be our servants and will serve us.”
10. The Philistine said, “I defy the battle lines of Israel this day. Give me a man, and let us fight together.”
11. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were filled with terror and were greatly afraid.
12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah whose name was Jesse, who had eight sons. And the man was old in the days of Saul and advanced in years.
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.