1 Samuel 17:12-30 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

1 Samuel 17:12-30

12 Now David was ^athe son of ¹the ^bEphrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and ^che had eight sons. And ²Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men. 13 And the three older sons of Jesse had gone. They had gone after Saul to the battle. And ^athe names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 ^aBut David was the youngest. Now the three oldest had gone after Saul, 15 ^abut David went back and forth from Saul ^bto shepherd his father’s flock at Bethlehem.
16 Then the Philistine approached, morning and evening, for forty days and took his stand.
17 Then Jesse said to David his son, “^aTake now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers. 18 ^aYou shall also bring these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, ^band look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back ¹a token from them. 19 And Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”
20 So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and carried the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the ^acircle of the camp while the military force was going out in battle lines shouting the war cry. 21 And Israel and the Philistines arranged themselves in battle lines, battle line ¹against battle line. 22 Then David left his ^abaggage in the ¹care of the baggage keeper and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers. 23 As he was speaking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines, and he spoke ^athese same words; and David heard them.
24 Now all the men of Israel saw the man, and they fled from him and were greatly afraid. 25 And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to ¹reproach Israel. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who strikes him down with great riches and ^awill give him his daughter and make his father’s house ²free in Israel.”
26 Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and takes away ^athe reproach from Israel? For who is this ^buncircumcised Philistine, that he should ¹^creproach the battle lines of ^dthe living God?” 27 And the people spoke to him in accord with this word, saying, “^aThus it will be done for the man who strikes him down.”
28 Then Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and ^aEliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I myself know your arrogance and the wickedness of your heart, for you have come down in order to see the battle.” 29 But David said, “What have I done now? Was it not just a word?” 30 Then he turned ¹away from him to another and ^asaid the same word; and the people responded to him with the same word as ²before.