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Then a champion came forward from the army encampment of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.

And he had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.

He also had bronze greaves on his legs and a bronze saber slung between his shoulders.

The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-carrier walked in front of him.

The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who had gone into the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and second to him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem.

And the Philistine came forward morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.

Then Jesse said to his son David, "Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers.

Then David left the baggage in the care of the baggage keeper and ran to the battle line. And he entered and greeted his brothers.

And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. And it will be that the king will make the man who kills him wealthy with great riches, and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel."

Now Eliab his oldest brother heard him when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger burned against David and he said, "Why is it that you have come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I myself know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle."

But Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight him; for you are only a youth, while he has been a warrior since his youth."

But David said to Saul, "Your servant was tending his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a sheep from the flock,

Then Saul clothed David with his military attire and put a bronze helmet on his head, and outfitted him with armor.

And David strapped on his sword over his military attire and struggled at walking, for he had not trained with the armor. So David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these, because I have not trained with them." And David took them off.

Then he took his staff in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, that is, in his shepherd's pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.

So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and finished him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

And David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.