7 Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.

8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the ^aservants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.  ‡

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

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