1 Samuel 17:1-18 The Philistines gathered their hoast to battayle, and came together to Socho which is in Iuda, and pytched betweene Socho and Azekah, in the coaste of Dammim

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The Philistines gathered their hoast to battayle, and came together to Socho which is in Iuda, and pytched betweene Socho and Azekah, in the coaste of Dammim ² And Saul & the men of Israel came together, and pytched in the valley of Elah, and put them selues in battaile aray, to meete the Philistines ³ And the Philistines stoode on a mountaine on the one syde, and Israel stoode on a mountaine on the other syde, and there was a valley betweene them ⁴ And there came a man betweene the both, out of the tentes of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath: sixe cubites and a handbreadth long ⁵ And had an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and a coate of male about him. And the weight of his coate of mayle, was fiue thousand sicles of brasse ⁶ And he had bootes of brasse vpon his legges, and a shielde of brasse vpon his shoulders ⁷ And the shaft of his speare was lyke a weauers beame, and his speare head wayed sixe hundred sicles of iron: And one bearing a shielde went before him ⁸ And he stoode and cryed against the hoast of Israel, and sayde vnto them: Why are ye come to set your battaile in array? am not I a Philistine, and you seruauntes to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come downe to me ⁹ And if he be able to fyght with me, & to kill me, then will we be your seruauntes: But if I can ouercome hym & beate him, then shal ye be our seruautes and serue vs ¹⁰ And the Philistine sayde: I defie the hoast of Israel this day, geue me a man, that we may fight together ¹¹ When Saul and all Israel heard those wordes of ye Philistine, they were discouraged, and greatly afraide ¹² Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Iuda, named Isai, which had eyght sonnes, & this man was taken for an olde man in the dayes of Saul ¹³ And the three eldest sonnes of Isai went, and folowed Saul to the battell: And the names of his three sonnes that went to battaile, were: Eliab the eldest, and the next Abinadab, and the thyrd Samma ¹⁴ And Dauid was the leaste. And the three eldest, went after Saul ¹⁵ Dauid also went, and departed from Saul, to feede his fathers sheepe at Bethlehem ¹⁶ And the Philistine came foorth in the morning and euening, and continued fourtie dayes ¹⁷ And Isai sayd vnto Dauid his sonne: Take for thy brethren an Epha of this partched corne, & these ten loaues, and runne to the hoast to thy brethren ¹⁸ And cary these ten freshe cheeses vnto the captayne, and loke howe thy brethren fare, and set out their pledge