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. Jos 15:351Ch 11:131Sa 13:52Ch 28:18Jdg 3:3Jos 10:10-111Sa 14:461Sa 14:52 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 21:91Sa 17:19 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. A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span 1 went out. Jos 11:221Ch 20:4-81Sa 17:232Sa 21:16-221Ch 11:231Sa 21:9-101Sa 27:4Deu 3:11 He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels 2 of bronze. He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. 1Sa 17:451Ki 10:162Ch 9:15 The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. 3 His shield bearer went before him. 2Sa 21:191Ch 11:231Sa 17:411Ch 20:5 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 yourselves, and let him come down to me. 1Sa 8:171Ch 21:31Sa 17:262Sa 11:11 If he is 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 11:1 The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!” 1Sa 17:25-261Sa 17:361Sa 17:452Sa 21:21Neh 2:19Num 23:7-8Job 40:9-12Psa 9:4-5
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Deu 31:8Jos 1:9Isa 51:12-13Isa 57:11Pro 28:1Psa 27:1 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul. 1Sa 16:10-11Gen 35:191Sa 16:181Ch 2:13-161Sa 17:58Rut 4:221Sa 16:1Luk 3:31-32 The three oldest 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. 1Ch 2:131Sa 16:6-91Sa 17:282Sa 13:32Sa 13:322Sa 21:21 David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul. 1Sa 16:11Gen 25:23 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. 1Sa 16:111Sa 16:19-23
The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. Luk 4:2Mat 4:2
Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah 4 of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers; 1Sa 25:182Sa 17:28Luk 11:13Mat 7:11Rut 2:14 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.” Gen 37:141Sa 16:201Th 3:5-62Sa 17:29Act 15:36Job 10:10 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle. 1Sa 26:5Luk 19:431Sa 17:281Sa 26:7Eph 6:1-2 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army. David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. Gen 37:14Isa 10:28Jdg 18:15Luk 10:5-6Mat 10:12-13 As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them. 1Sa 17:8-10 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were terrified. 1Sa 13:6-71Sa 17:11Deu 32:30Isa 30:17Isa 7:2Lev 26:36Num 13:33 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel.” Jos 15:16Rev 2:7Rev 3:121Sa 18:17-27Ezr 7:24Mat 17:26Rev 2:17Rev 3:21
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 11:2Deu 5:261Sa 14:61Sa 17:101Sa 17:362Ki 19:4Dan 9:16Jer 10:10
The people answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.” 1Sa 17:25
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned 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 evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.” Mat 10:36Gen 37:11Gen 37:4Gen 37:8Pro 18:19Mrk 3:211Sa 16:131Sa 16:7
David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?” 1Pe 3:91Co 2:15Act 11:2-4Pro 15:1 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way. 1Sa 17:26-27 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him. Pro 22:29 David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” 1Sa 16:18Deu 20:1-3Psa 3:6Isa 35:4Num 14:9Psa 27:1-31Sa 14:6Heb 12:12
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.” Num 13:31Deu 9:2Rev 13:41Sa 17:421Sa 17:56Psa 11:1
David 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, I went out after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, struck him, and killed him. Amo 3:122Ti 4:17-18Dan 6:22Jdg 14:5-6Psa 91:13Act 28:4-62Sa 23:20 Your 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.” 1Sa 17:101Sa 17:26Act 12:1-2Act 12:22-23Act 5:38-39Ezk 32:19Ezk 32:27-32Isa 10:15 David said, “The LORD, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” 2Ti 4:17-18Psa 138:7-82Co 1:9-10Psa 18:16-17Psa 63:71Ch 22:111Sa 20:131Sa 7:12
Saul said to David, “Go! The LORD will be with you.”
Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. David 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.” Then David took them off. 2Co 10:4-5Hos 1:7Zec 4:6
He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine. 1Co 1:27-29Jdg 15:15-16Jdg 20:16Mat 10:10Jdg 3:31Jdg 7:16-20 The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him. When the Philistine looked around and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face. 1Sa 16:121Sa 17:33Psa 123:3-42Co 11:27-29Pro 16:181Ki 20:182Ki 18:23-24Neh 4:2-4 The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods. 1Sa 24:142Sa 3:82Sa 9:82Ki 8:132Sa 16:9Gen 27:29Pro 26:2Num 22:6 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.” 1Ki 20:10-11Ezk 28:9-10Pro 18:121Sa 17:46Ecc 9:11-12Ezk 28:2Ezk 39:17-20Jer 9:23
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 2Co 10:42Ch 32:82Co 3:5Php 4:13Psa 18:2Psa 124:82Sa 22:33-351Sa 17:36 Today, 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 today 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, Isa 52:10Jos 4:242Ki 19:191Ki 8:43Deu 28:26Dan 6:26-27Dan 2:47Exo 9:16 and 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.” Psa 44:6-7Zec 4:6Hos 1:7Pro 21:30-311Sa 14:6Rom 8:312Ch 14:112Ch 20:15-17
When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Pro 28:1Psa 27:1 David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 1Co 1:27-281Ki 22:342Ki 9:24 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 David’s hand. Jdg 15:151Sa 17:391Sa 21:91Sa 23:211Sa 13:22Jdg 3:31 Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. 1Sa 21:9Heb 11:342Sa 23:21Est 7:10Heb 2:14Psa 7:15-16
When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as 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. Jos 15:111Sa 14:21-222Sa 23:10Jdg 7:23Jos 15:33-36Jos 15:45-46 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp. 2Ki 7:7-16Jer 30:16Jer 4:20 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. Exo 16:331Sa 21:9Jos 4:7-8 When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” 1Sa 16:21-221Sa 17:58
Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell.”
The king said, “Inquire whose son the young man is!”
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 17:54 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, you young man?” 1Sa 17:121Sa 16:18-19
David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”