1   And the Philisthijms gathering together their companies vnto battel, assembled into Socho of Iuda: and camped betwen Socho & Azeca in the borders of Dommim.

2   Moreouer Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together came into the Valley of terebinth, and they put the armie in aray to fight against the Philistijms.

3   And the Philistijms stoode vpon the mountaine on this side, and Israel stoode vpon the mountaine on the other side: and the valley was betwen them.

4   And there came forth a man that was a bastard from the campe of the Philistians named ^note Goliath, of Geth, in height six cubites and a palme:

5   and a helmet of brasse vpon his head, and he was clothed with a cote of mayle linked. moreouer the weight of his cote of mayle was fiue thousand sicles of brasse:

6   and he had brassen bootes on his thighes, and a target of brasse couered his shoulders.

7   And the shaft of his speare was as it were a weauers beame. and the verie yton of his speare had six hundred sicles of yron: and his esquier went before him.

8   And standing he cried against the bandes of Israel, and sayd to them: Why came you prepared to fight? Am not I a Philistian, and you the seruantes of Saul? Choose out a man of you and let him descend to fight hand to hand.

9   If he shal be able to fight

Dauid. Goliath. with me, and strike me, we wil be seruantes to you: but if I shal preuaile, and shal beate him, you shal be seruantes, and shal serue vs.

10   And the Philistian sayd: I haue defyed the bandes of Israel this day: Geue me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

11   And Saul and al the Israelites hearing such wordes of the Philistian were astonied, and feared excedingly.

12   And there was Dauid the sonne of a man that was an Ephratheite, of whom there was mention before, of Bethlehem Iuda, whose name was Isai, who had eight sonnes, and he was in the dayes of Saul an old man, and aged among men.

13   And his three elder sonnes went after Saul into battel: and the names of his three sonnes, which went to battel, were Eliab the first begotten, and the second Abinadab, the third also Samma:

14   and Dauid was the yongest. The three elder therefore hauing folowed Saul,

15   Dauid went, and returned from Saul, to feede his fathers flocke in Bethlehem.

16   But the Philistian came forth morning and euening, and stoode fourtie dayes.

17   And Isai sayd to Dauid his sonne: Take for thy brethren an ephi of polent, and these ten loaues, and runne into the campe to thy brethren,

18   and these ten litle cheeses thou shalr carie to the tribune: and shalt visite thy brethren, if they doe wel: and learne with whom they are placed.

19   And Saul, and they, and al the children of Israel fought in the Valley of terebinth against the Philistijms.

20   Dauid therefore arose in the morning, and commended the flocke to the keeper: and he went loaded as Isai had commanded him. And he came to the place Magala, and to the host, which issuing out to fight had made a shoute in the battel.

21   For Israel had put them selues in aray, and the Philistijms on the contrarie side were prepared.

22   Dauid therefore leauing the vessels which he had brought, vnder the hand of him, that was keeper at the bagage, ranne to the place of the battel and asked if al thinges went wel with his brethren.

23   And when he yet spake to them, that man the bastard appeared coming vp, named Goliath, the Philistian of Geth, coming vp from the campe of the Philistians: and he speaking these self same wordes, Dauid heard them.

24   And al the Israelites when they had sene the man, fled from his face, fearing him excedingly.

25   And some one of Israel sayd: Haue you seene this man that came vp, to defye Israel he came vp? The man therefore ^note that shal strike him, the King

Dauid. Goliath. wil geue him his daughter, and he wil make his fathers house without tribute in Israel.

26   And Dauid spake to the men that stood with him, saying: What shal be geuen to the man that shal beate this Philistian, and shal take away the reproch from Israel? For who is this vncircumcised Philistian, which hath vpbraided the armies of the liuing God?

27   And the people reported vnto him the self same worde, saying: These thinges shal be geuen to the man, that shal strike him.

28   Which when Eliab his eldest brother had heard, when he spake with others, he was angrie against Dauid, and sayd: Wherefore camest thou? and why hast thou left those few sheepe in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickednes of thy hart: that to see the battel thou art come downe.

29   And Dauid sayd: What haue I done? is there not cause to speake?

30   And he went a litle aside from him to an other: and sayd the self same word. And the people answered him as before.

31   And the wordes which Dauid spake were heard, and told in the sight of Saul.

32   To whom when he was brought, he spake vnto him: Let not any mans hart be discouraged in him: I thy seruant wil goe, and wil fight against the Philistian.

33   And Saul sayd to Dauid: Thou art not able to resist this Philistian, nor to fight against him, because thou art a childe, but he is a man of warre from his youth.

34   And Dauid sayd to Saul: Thy seruant did feede his fathers flock, and there came a lyon, ^note or a beare, and tooke a ramme out of the middes of the flocke:

35   and I pursued them, and stroke them, and plucked them out of their mouth, and they arose vp against me, and I caught their chinne, and I strangled and slew them.

36   For ^note both the lyon and the beare did I thy seruant kil: therefore this vncircumcised Philistian also, shal be as it were one of them. Now wil I goe and take away the reproch of the people: for who is this vncircumcised Philistian, which hath beene so hardie to curse the host of the liuing God?

37   And Dauid sayd: Our Lord which hath deliuered me from the hand of the lion, and of the beare, he wil deliuer me from the hand of this Philistian. And Saul sayd to Dauid: Goe, and our Lord be with thee.

38   And Saul clothed Dauid with his rayments, and put an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and vested him with a coate of maile.

39   Dauid therefore being girded with his sword ouer his rayment, beganne to proue if he could goe armed: for he was not accustomed.

Dauid. Goliath. And Dauid sayd to Saul: I can not goe so, because I am not vsed, and he layd them of.

40   And he tooke his staffe, which he had alwaies in his handes: & he chose him fiue most bright stones out of the torrent, and cast them into the shepherds skrippe, which he had with him, and he tooke a sling in his hand, and went forth against the Philistian.

41   And the Philistian went, going, and approching against Dauid, and his esquier before him.

42   And when the Philistian had seene, and beheld Dauid, he despised him. And he was a yong man redde, and beautiful to behold.

43   And the Philistian sayd to Dauid: Why am I a dogge, that thou comest to me with a staffe? And the Philistian cursed Dauid in his goddes.

44   and sayd to Dauid: Come to me, and I wil geue thy flesh to the foules of the ayre and the beastes of the earth.

45   And Dauid sayd to the Philistian: Thou comest to me with a sword, and speare, and sheeld, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the bandes of Israel, whom thou hast defied

46   this day, and our Lord shal geue thee in my hand, and I shal strike thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I shal geue the carcasses of the campe of the Philistijms this day, to the fowles of the ayre, and to the beastes of the earth: that al the earth may knowe that there is a God in Israel.

47   And al this assemblie shal know, that not in sword, nor in speare, doth our Lord saue, for it is his battel, and he wil deliuer you into our handes.

48   When the Philistian therefore was risen vp, and came and approched against Dauid, Dauid made haft, & ranne to the battel against the Philistian.

49   And he put his hand into his skrippe, and tooke one stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about stroke the Philistian in ^note the forehead, and he fel on his face vpon the earth.

50   And Dauid preuailed agaynst the Philistian with sling and stone, and he stroke, and slew the Philistian. And whereas Dauid had no sword in his hand,

51   he ranne, and stood vpon the Philistian, and tooke his sword, and drew it out of the scabard, and slew him, and cut of his head. And the Philistijms seing, that the strongest of them was dead, did flee.

52   And the men of Israel and Iuda rising vp shouted, and pursued the Philistians til they came into a valley to the gates of Accaron, and there fel wounded of the Philistijms in the way of Saraim, as farre as Geth, & as farre as Accaron.

53   And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the

Saul. Dauid. Ionathas. Philistian, inuaded their campe.

54   And Dauid taking the head of the Philistian brought it into Ierusalem: but his armour he layd in his tabernacle.

55   And at the same time that Saul saw Dauid going forth against the Philistian, he sayd to Abner the prince of the armie: ^note Of what stocke is this yong man descended, Abner? And Abner sayd: Thy soule liueth ô king, if I know.

56   And the king sayd: Aske thou, whose sonne this yong man is.

57   And when Dauid was returned, after the Philisthian was slaine, Abner tooke him, and brought him in before Saul, hauing the head of the Philistian in his hand.

58   And Saul sayd to him: O yong man of what progenie art thou? And Dauid sayd: I am the sonne of thy seruant Isai the Bethlemite.

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