9. “If he is able to fight with me, and shall smite me, then we shall be your servants. But if I overcome him and shall smite him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”
10. Then the Philistine said, “This day I shall reproach the armies of Yisra’ĕl. Give me a man, and let us fight together.”
11. And Sha’ul and all Yisra’ĕl heard these words of the Philistine, and they were broken down and in great fear.
12. Now Dawiḏ was the son of that Ephrathite of Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha’ul the man was old among men.
13. And the three oldest sons of Yishai went, they had gone to follow Sha’ul to the battle, and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliyaḇ the first-born, and his second Aḇinaḏaḇ, and the third Shammah.
14. And Dawiḏ was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Sha’ul,
15. but Dawiḏ went and returned from Sha’ul to feed his father’s sheep at Bĕyth Leḥem.
16. And for forty days the Philistine drew near, morning and evening, and took his stand.
17. Then Yishai said to his son Dawiḏ, “Please take to your brothers an ĕphah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp.