1The Philistines pulled up with their whole squad ready to throw down, chillin' at Shochoh, which is Judah's spot, set up between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

2Saul and the Israel crew gathered up, camping by the Elah valley, getting their battle vibes on against the Philistines.

3The Philistines were on one mountain, Israel on the other, and there was a whole valley chillin' in between them.

4Then this champ named Goliath from Gath stepped outta the Philistine camp, dude was like six cubits tall, no cap.

5He was rocking a brass helmet and a sick coat of mail, and that thing weighed like five thousand shekels of brass, fr.

6Goliath had brass greaves on his legs and a brass target chillin' between his shoulders.

7His spear was like a giant’s beam, and the tip weighed six hundred shekels of iron, plus a dude with a shield was flexing in front of him.

8He stood there and yelled at the Israel squad, asking why they came out to fight. He was like, "Aren't I a Philistine? You guys are Saul's servants. Pick someone to come at me."

9If your guy can take me down, we’ll be your servants, but if I win, y'all gotta serve us.

10The Philistine was like, "I’m calling out the armies of Israel today; send me a man so we can throw down."

11When Saul and all Israel heard those words from the Philistine, they were shook and super scared.

12So David was the son of this dude from Bethlehem named Jesse; he had eight sons, and Jesse was like, “Old man vibes” back in Saul’s day.

13The three oldest sons of Jesse dipped and followed Saul to the battle: Eliab was the firstborn, then Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.

14David was the youngest, while the three oldest were rolling with Saul.

15But David bounced back to feed his dad’s sheep in Bethlehem.

16The Philistine pulled up morning and night, flexing for forty days.

17Jesse told David, “Yo, take this ephah of grain and ten loaves to your bros at the camp.”

18And bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their squad, check on your bros, and see how they’re doing.

19Saul and the whole crew were in the valley of Elah, squaring up against the Philistines.

20David woke up early, left the sheep with a keeper, and bounced, just like Jesse said; he showed up at the trench as the crew was getting ready to throw down, and shouted for the battle.

21Israel and the Philistines were ready to throw down, army against army. Vibes were high.

22David left his stuff with the homie in charge and ran into the squad, greeting his bros.

23While he was chatting, boom! Goliath, the Philistine champ, rolls up and starts talking trash, and David's all ears.

24All the guys from Israel saw Goliath and dipped out, straight-up scared. No cap.

25The Israelites were like, "Yo, have you seen this dude? He’s here to roast us! Whoever takes him down gets mad cash, the king's daughter, and their fam gets VIP status in Israel."

26David asked the crew nearby, "What’s the deal for the guy who drops this Philistine and clears our name? Who's this uncircumcised dude trying to roast the armies of the living God?"

27The people were like, "Yeah, that’s what’ll happen to the guy who takes him out."

28Eliab, David’s older bro, heard him talking and got mad, saying, "Why you even here? Who’s watching those sheep? I see your pride and your sus heart; you just wanna see the fight."

29David was like, "What did I do? Is there not a reason for me to be here?"

30He turned to someone else and asked the same thing, and the crowd answered him again like before.

31So when the squad heard what David was saying, they went and told Saul, and he was like, "Bring him here."

32David was like, "No cap, don’t let anyone be shook. I’ll go and take on this Philistine."

33Saul was like, "Bro, you can’t fight this Philistine. You’re just a kid, and he’s been a savage warrior since forever."

34David said, "I’ve been out here watching my dad’s sheep, and one time a lion and a bear rolled up and snatched a lamb."

35"I went after them, popped off, and rescued the lamb. When they came at me, I grabbed them by the beard and took them down."

36"I’ve slayed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine is gonna be just like them, 'cause he’s dissing the armies of the living God."

37David added, "The Lord who saved me from the lion and the bear will totally handle this Philistine." Saul was like, "Aight, go for it, and may the Lord have your back."

38Saul suited David up with his armor, and put a brass helmet on his head; he also gave him a coat of mail.

39David strapped on the sword over his armor and tried to walk, but he was like, "Nah, I can’t roll with this; I haven’t tested it out." So he took it all off.

40He grabbed his staff, picked five smooth stones from the stream, tossed them in his shepherd’s bag, and took his sling in hand, getting ready to face the Philistine.

41The Philistine rolled up on David, and the dude with the shield was leading the way.

42When the Philistine peeped David, he was like, "Nah, this kid?" Dude was just a young buck, kinda fresh-faced.

43The Philistine was all, "You think I'm a dog? You come at me with sticks?" Then he threw some shade at David with his gods.

44The Philistine said to David, "Come at me, and I’ll feed your flesh to the birds and beasts."

45David shot back, "You come at me with a sword and spear, but I’m rolling up in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, who you just dissed."

46"Today, the Lord’s gonna hand you over to me; I'm gonna take you down and serve your crew to the birds and beasts, so everyone knows there’s a God in Israel."

47Everyone here will see that the Lord doesn’t save with swords and spears; the battle belongs to Him, and He’s got us covered.

48When the Philistine stood up and charged at David, David was like, "Bet!" and ran straight at him.

49David reached into his bag, grabbed a stone, and flung it right at the Philistine’s forehead; the stone went in deep, and he dropped face-first.

50So David took down the Philistine with just a sling and a stone; he smacked him hard, but David didn't even need a sword.

51So David ran up, stood on the Philistine, pulled out his sword, and straight up took him out, head and all. The Philistines peaced out when they saw their champ was down.

52Then the homies from Israel and Judah popped off, shouted, and chased the Philistines all the way to the valley and the gates of Ekron. The wounded Philistines were dropping like flies on the way to Shaaraim, Gath, and Ekron.

53The kids of Israel bounced back from chasing the Philistines and snagged their stuff.

54David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem; he just stashed his armor in his tent.

55When Saul saw David stepping up against the Philistine, he asked Abner, the captain, "Yo, whose son is this kid?" Abner was like, "No cap, I can't even tell, O king."

56And the king said, "Find out whose son this young dude is."

57When David came back from taking out the Philistine, Abner brought him to Saul with the Philistine's head in hand.

58Saul asked him, "Yo, whose son are you, young man?" David replied, "I’m the son of your servant Jesse from Bethlehem."

1Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes–dammim.

2And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

3And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

4And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

5And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

6And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

7And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

8And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

9If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

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

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

12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth–lehem–judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

13And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

14And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

15But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth–lehem.

16And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

17And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

18And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

20And 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 trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

21For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

22And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

23And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

24And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

25And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

26And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

27And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

28And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

30And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

31And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

32And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

33And Saul said to David, 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.

34And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

35And 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.

36Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

37David said moreover, The Lord 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 Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.

38And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

39And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

40And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

41And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

42And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

43And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

44And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

45Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

46This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases 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 know that there is a God in Israel.

47And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.

48And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

49And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

50So David 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 David.

51Therefore David ran, and stood upon 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 their champion was dead, they fled.

52And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, 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.

53And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

54And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

55And when Saul saw David 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 soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

56And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.

57And 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.

58And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth–lehemite.