📖 The Book of 1 Samuel: Bible Verses and Spiritual Insights

1 SAMUEL 17:3

And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and [there was] a valley between them. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:4

# And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:5

And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand shekels of brass. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:6

And [he had] greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:7

And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:8

And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:9

If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:10

And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:11

When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:12

# Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:13

And the three eldest sons of Jesse went [and] followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle [were] Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. ...

1 SAMUEL 17:14

And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. ...