9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and aserve us.”
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.
12 Now David was athe son of that bEphrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse, and who had ceight sons. And the man was old, advanced in years, in the days of Saul.
13 The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The anames of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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