016:021 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer. 016:022 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight. 016:023 It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. 017:001 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. 017:002 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 017:003 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. 017:004 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 017:005 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 017:006 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders. 017:007 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him. 017:008 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. 017:009 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall you be our servants, and serve us. 017:010 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. 017:011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 017:012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men. 017:013 The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 017:014 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul. 017:015 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. 017:016 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. 017:017 Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers