9. Ukuba indoyisile yandibulala, soba zizicaka zenu thina. Xa indim owoyisileyo, nina noba zizicaka zethu.
10. Ndim lo, ndinibeka ehlazweni, maSirayeli. Khuphani indoda ibe nye, sihlangane!”
11. Boyika, bagubha ooSawule namadoda omkhosi wakhe, bakuyiva into ethethwa nguloo mFilistiya.
12. UDavide wayengunyana kaJese umEfrata waseBhetelehem kwaJuda. UJese wayenoonyana abasibhozo. Wayeselemdala kakhulu ngexesha ekwakulawula uSawule.
13. Oonyana bakhe abakhulu abathathu baya emfazweni kunye nomkhosi kaSawule. Omkhulu yayinguEliyabhi, kuze uAbhinadabhi, kulandele uShama.
14. UDavide yena wayenguntondo. Lo gama abakhuluwa bakhe babenoSawule,
15. yena uDavide wayedla ngokuthi ekwaSawule abe emana egoduka aye eBhetelehem, esiya kwalusa iigusha zikayise.
16. Yaba ngamashumi amane eentsuku uGoliyati mihla le ecela umngeni kumaSirayeli kusasa nangokuhlwa.
17. UJese wathuma unyana wakhe uDavide, wathi: “Hamba nale ngqolowa igcadiweyo, ishumi leekhilogram, neli shumi lezonka, ukhawuleze uzise kubantakwenu emkhosini,
18. uphathele umphathi-butho nala maqebengwana alishumi etshizi, usivele ukuba basaphila na abantakwenu. Uze ube nento oza nayo, eyoba bubungqina bokuba basaphila.