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The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
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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;
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and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge.
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Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
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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 host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
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Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
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David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
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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.
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All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
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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.
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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?