These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 17
Tanakh 58 verses
- 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongeth to , and pitched between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
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And and the men of were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
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- 3 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and stood on the mountain on the other side; and there was a valley between them.
- 4 And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- 5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
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And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.
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And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him.
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And he stood and cried unto the armies of , and said unto them: ‘Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to ? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
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If 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 shall ye be our servants, and us.’
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- 10 And the Philistine said: ‘I do taunt the armies of this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.’
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And when and all heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
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- 12 Now was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem in , whose was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was an old man in the days of , stricken in years among men.
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And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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And was the youngest; and the three eldest followed .—
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Now went to and fro from to feed his father’s sheep at Beth-lehem.—
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And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
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And Jesse said unto his son: ‘Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren.
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And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and to thy brethren shalt thou bring greetings, and take their pledge;
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- 19 now , and they, and all the men of , are in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.’
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And 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 barricade, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
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- 21 And and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
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And left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brethren.
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And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by , out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words; and heard them.
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And all the men of , when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
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- 25 And the men of said: ‘Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to taunt is he come up; and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in .’
- 26 And spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: ‘What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the taunt from ? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should have taunted the armies of the living ?’
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And the people answered him after this manner, saying: ‘So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.’
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- 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against , and he said: ‘Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I thy presumptuousness, and the naughtiness of thy ; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.’
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And said: ‘What have I now done? Was it not but a ?’
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And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him after the former manner.
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And when the words were heard which spoke, they rehearsed them before ; and he was taken to him.
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- 32 And said to : ‘Let no man’s fail within him; thy will go and fight with this Philistine.’
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And said to : ‘Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.’
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- 34 And said unto : ‘Thy kept his father’s sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
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I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
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- 36 Thy smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath taunted the armies of the living .’
- 37 And said: ‘The that 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.’ And said unto : ‘Go, and shall be with thee.’
- 38 And clad with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
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And girded his sword upon his apparel, and he essayed to go [, but could not]; for he had not tried it. And said unto : ‘I cannot go with these; for I have not tried them.’ And put them off him.
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And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, even in his scrip; and his sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.
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- 41 And the Philistine came nearer and nearer unto ; and the man that bore the shield went before him.
- 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw , he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance.
- 43 And the Philistine said unto : ‘Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?’ And the Philistine cursed by his .
- 44 And the Philistine said to : ‘Come to me, and I will give thy unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.’
- 45 Then said to the Philistine: ‘Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the of of hosts, the of the armies of , whom thou hast taunted.
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This day will deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may that there is a in ;
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1 Kings 8:43 Isaiah 52:10 2 Kings 19:19 Joshua 4:24 Deuteronomy 28:26 Daniel 6:26-27 Isaiah 37:20 1 Kings 18:36-37 Deuteronomy 9:2-3 Psalm 46:10 Psalm 31:8 1 Samuel 17:44 Deuteronomy 7:2 Deuteronomy 7:23 Daniel 2:47 Exodus 9:16 Daniel 3:29 Revelation 19:17-18 Joshua 10:8 Exodus 15:14-15 Matthew 24:28 Isaiah 56:9 - 47 and that all this may that saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’S, and He will give you into our hand.’
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And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet , that hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
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And put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his to the earth.
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So prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of .
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And ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, they fled.
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And the men of and of arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
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And the children of returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their camp.
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And took the head of the philistine, and brought it to ; but he put his armour in his tent.
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And when saw go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host: ‘Abner, whose son is this youth?’ And Abner said: ‘As thy liveth, O , I cannot tell.’
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- 56 And the said: ‘Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.’
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And as returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
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And said to him: ‘Whose son art thou, thou young man?’ And answered: ‘I am the son of thy Jesse the Beth-lehemite.’
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