I Samuel 17

1Now 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.

8He 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 yourselves, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 8:17, 1 Samuel 8:17, 1 Chronicles 21:3, 2 Samuel 11:11, 1 Samuel 17:26

9If 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."

1 Samuel 11:1, 1 Samuel 11:1

10The Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day! Give me a man, that we may fight together!"

1 Samuel 17:25, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:25, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:45

11When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Joshua 1:9, Deuteronomy 31:8, Joshua 1:9, Deuteronomy 31:8, Isaiah 51:12

12Now 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 among men.

Genesis 35:19, 1 Samuel 16:10, 1 Samuel 16:11, Genesis 35:19, 1 Samuel 16:10

13The 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.

1 Chronicles 2:13, 1 Chronicles 2:13, 2 Samuel 21:21, 2 Samuel 13:3, 1 Samuel 17:28

14David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:11, Genesis 25:23, Genesis 25:23

15Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:19, 1 Samuel 16:23, 1 Samuel 16:19

16The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

Matthew 4:2, Luke 4:2, Matthew 4:2, Luke 4:2

17Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

1 Samuel 25:18, 1 Samuel 25:18, Ruth 2:14, Matthew 7:11, Luke 11:13

18and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news."

Genesis 37:14, Genesis 37:14, 1 Samuel 16:20, 1 Samuel 16:20, Job 10:10

19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

20David 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.

1 Samuel 26:5, Luke 19:43, 1 Samuel 26:5, Luke 19:43, 1 Samuel 17:28

21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

22David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6, Genesis 37:14, Matthew 10:12, Matthew 10:13

23As 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.

1 Samuel 17:8, 1 Samuel 17:10, 1 Samuel 17:8, 1 Samuel 17:10

24All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

Numbers 13:33, 1 Samuel 17:11, Deuteronomy 32:30, Leviticus 26:36, Isaiah 7:2

25The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. 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 exempt in Israel."

Joshua 15:16, Joshua 15:16, Revelation 3:12, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 3:12

26David 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?"

1 Samuel 11:2, 1 Samuel 11:2, Deuteronomy 5:26, Deuteronomy 5:26, 1 Samuel 17:10

27The people answered him in this way, saying, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

1 Samuel 17:25, 1 Samuel 17:25

28Eliab 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? 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."

Matthew 10:36, Matthew 10:36, Genesis 37:11, Genesis 37:8, Genesis 37:4

29David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

1 Peter 3:9, 1 Peter 3:9, Acts 11:2, Acts 11:4, Proverbs 15:1

30He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.

1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:27, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:27

31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

Proverbs 22:29, Proverbs 22:29

32David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."

1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 16:18, Deuteronomy 20:1, Deuteronomy 20:3, Deuteronomy 20:1

33Saul 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."

Numbers 13:31, Numbers 13:31, Deuteronomy 9:2, Revelation 13:4, Deuteronomy 9:2

34David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

35I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18, Amos 3:12, 2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18

36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God."

1 Samuel 17:10, 1 Samuel 17:10, Isaiah 37:22, Isaiah 37:23, Acts 12:22

37David said, "The Lord 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 the Lord shall be with you."

2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18, 2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18, Psalms 138:7

38Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of brass on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.

39David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, "I can't go with these; for I have not tested them." David took them off.

Zechariah 4:6, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Hosea 1:7, Zechariah 4:6

40He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. His sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.

1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, Judges 20:16

41The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

42When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face.

1 Samuel 16:12, 1 Samuel 16:12, 1 Samuel 17:33, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4

43The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

2 Samuel 3:8, 2 Samuel 9:8, 1 Samuel 24:14, 2 Samuel 3:8, 2 Samuel 9:8

44The 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."

Ezekiel 28:9, Ezekiel 28:10, Proverbs 18:12, 1 Kings 20:10, 1 Kings 20:11

45Then David said 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 the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Chronicles 32:8, 2 Chronicles 32:8, 2 Corinthians 3:5

46Today, the Lord will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. 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,

Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 52:10, Joshua 4:24, Joshua 4:24, 2 Kings 19:19

47and that all this assembly may know that the Lord doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand."

Psalms 44:6, Psalms 44:7, Psalms 44:6, Psalms 44:7, Zechariah 4:6

48It 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.

Proverbs 28:1, Psalms 27:1, Proverbs 28:1, Psalms 27:1

49David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:28, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:28, 1 Kings 22:34

50So 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.

Judges 15:15, Judges 15:15, 1 Samuel 21:9, 1 Samuel 23:21, 1 Samuel 17:39

51Then 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.

Hebrews 11:34, 1 Samuel 21:9, Hebrews 11:34, 1 Samuel 21:9, 2 Samuel 23:21

52The 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.

Joshua 15:11, Joshua 15:11, 2 Samuel 23:10, 1 Samuel 14:21, 1 Samuel 14:22

53The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

Jeremiah 4:20, Jeremiah 30:16, 2 Kings 7:7, 2 Kings 7:16, Jeremiah 4:20

54David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.

Joshua 4:7, Joshua 4:8, Exodus 16:33, Joshua 4:7, Joshua 4:8

55When 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."

1 Samuel 16:21, 1 Samuel 16:22, 1 Samuel 16:21, 1 Samuel 16:22, 1 Samuel 17:58

56The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"

57As 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.

1 Samuel 17:54, 1 Samuel 17:54

58Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

1 Samuel 17:12, 1 Samuel 17:12, 1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 16:19, 1 Samuel 16:18

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