June
12
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Samuel 17, 18
1Sa
17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle;
and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and
encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
1Sa
17:2 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped
in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
Philistines.
1Sa
17:3 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and
Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a
valley between them.
1Sa
17:4 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1Sa
17:5 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a
coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of
brass.
1Sa
17:6 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass
between his shoulders.
1Sa
17:7 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his
spear's head weighed
six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.
1Sa
17:8 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them,
Why have you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a
Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose a man for you, and let
him come down to me.
1Sa
17:9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be
your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you
will be our servants, and serve us.
1Sa
17:10 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we may fight together.
1Sa
17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
1Sa
17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah,
whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old
man in the days of Saul, stricken in
years among men.
1Sa
17:13 The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the
battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were
Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
1Sa
17:14 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
1Sa
17:15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.
1Sa
17:16 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented
himself forty days.
1Sa
17:17 Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an
ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them
quickly to the camp to your brothers;
1Sa
17:18 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand,
and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge.
1Sa
17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the
valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
1Sa
17:20 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came
to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the
fight shouted for the battle.
1Sa
17:21 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army
against army.
1Sa
17:22 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the
baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
1Sa
17:23 As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion,
the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the
Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard
them.
1Sa
17:24 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
and were sore afraid.
1Sa
17:25 The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come up?
surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man
who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will
give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1Sa
17:26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be
done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that
he should defy the armies of the living God?
1Sa
17:27 The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it
be done to the man who kills him.
1Sa
17:28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and
Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have you
come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the
wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for
you have come down that you might see the battle.
1Sa
17:29 David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
1Sa
17:30 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the
same manner: and the people answered him again after the former
manner.
1Sa
17:31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed
them before Saul; and he sent for him.
1Sa
17:32 David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him;
your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
1Sa
17:33 Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man
of war from his youth.
1Sa
17:34 David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's
sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of
the flock,
1Sa
17:35 I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out of
his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard,
and struck him, and killed him.
1Sa
17:36 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has
defied the armies of the living God.
1Sa
17:37 David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the
lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be
with you.
1Sa
17:38 Saul clad David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of
brass on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
1Sa
17:39 David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go;
for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these;
for I have not proved them. David put them off him.
1Sa
17:40 He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he
had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew
near to the Philistine.
1Sa
17:41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who
bore the shield went before him.
1Sa
17:42 When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained
him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face.
1Sa
17:43 The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me
with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
1Sa
17:44 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your
flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.
1Sa
17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the
name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you
have defied.
1Sa
17:46 This day Yahweh will deliver you into my hand; and I will
strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give the dead
bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the
sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel,
1Sa
17:47 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save
with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give
you into our hand.
1Sa
17:48 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near
to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet
the Philistine.
1Sa
17:49 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and
slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone
sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
1Sa
17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no
sword in the hand of David.
1Sa
17:51 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his
sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his
head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was
dead, they fled.
1Sa
17:52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued
the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron.
The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even
to Gath, and to Ekron.
1Sa
17:53 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
1Sa
17:54 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to
Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
1Sa
17:55 When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said
to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth?
Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.
1Sa
17:56 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"
1Sa
17:57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner
took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine
in his hand.
1Sa
17:58 Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David
answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1Sa
18:1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that
the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.
1Sa
18:2 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to
his father's house.
1Sa
18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him
as his own soul.
1Sa
18:4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave
it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and
to his sash.
1Sa
18:5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and
behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it
was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of
Saul's servants.
1Sa
18:6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the
cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with
tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
1Sa
18:7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul
has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.
1Sa
18:8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he
said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have
ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
1Sa
18:9 Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
1Sa
18:10 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came
mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and
David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear
in his hand;
1Sa
18:11 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David even
to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice.
1Sa
18:12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was
departed from Saul.
1Sa
18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain
over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
1Sa
18:14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was
with him.
1Sa
18:15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in
awe of him.
1Sa
18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came
in before them.
1Sa
18:17 Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will
I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's
battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand
of the Philistines be on him.
1Sa
18:18 David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or
my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the
king?
1Sa
18:19 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter,
should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the
Meholathite as wife.
1Sa
18:20 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and
the thing pleased him.
1Sa
18:21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to
him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law a
second time.
1Sa
18:22 Saul commanded his servants, saying,
Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in
you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's
son-in-law.
1Sa
18:23 Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David
said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law,
seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
1Sa
18:24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke
David.
1Sa
18:25 Saul said, Thus you shall tell David, The king desires no
dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged
of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the
hand of the Philistines.
1Sa
18:26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David
well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;
1Sa
18:27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the
Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and
they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the
king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
1Sa
18:28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal,
Saul's daughter, loved him.
1Sa
18:29 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's
enemy continually.
1Sa
18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it
happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself
more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much
set by.
