1 Samuel 17:1-18 And the Philistines gathered together their camps to battle, and they gathered themselves together at Sochoh, which belongeth to Judah; and they encamped between Sochoh and ‘Azekah, at Ephess-dammim.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And the Philistines gathered together their camps to battle, and they gathered themselves together at Sochoh, which belongeth to Judah; and they encamped between Sochoh and ‘Azekah, at Ephess-dammim. ² And Saul and the men of Israel gathered themselves together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and put themselves in battle-array opposite to the Philistines. ³ And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and the Israelites stood on a mountain on the other side: and the valley was between them. ⁴ And there went out the champion out of the camp of the Philistines, Goliath of Gath was his name, whose height was six cubits and a span. ⁵ And he had a helmet of copper upon his head, and he was clothed with a scaly coat of mail; and the weight of the coat of mail was five thousand shekels of copper. ⁶ And he had greaves of copper upon his legs, and a javelin of copper between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and the blade of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and the shield-bearer was walking before him. ⁸ And he stood and calleth unto the arrays of Israel, and said unto them, Why will ye come out to put yourselves in battle-array? Behold: I am the Philistine, and ye are servants to Saul! select for yourselves one man, and let him come down to me; ⁹ If he be able to fight with me, and he kill me, then will we be unto you as servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be unto us as servants, and ye shall serve us. ¹⁰ And the Philistine said, I have defied the arrays 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 disheartened, and became greatly afraid. ¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lechem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was old in the days of Saul, belonging to the persons of high esteem. ¹³ And the three eldest sons of Jesse were gone following Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that were gone to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and the next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. ¹⁴ And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. ¹⁵ But David kept going and returning from Saul to feed his father’s flocks at Beth-lechem. ¹⁶ And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. ¹⁷ And Jesse said unto David his son, Take, I pray thee, for thy brothers an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brothers; ¹⁸ And these ten cheeses shalt thou bring unto the captain of the thousand, and inquire of thy brothers how they fare, and take away their pledge.