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Today's Bible Reading :: 1 Samuel 15 - 17 (ESV)

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1 Samuel 15

The Lord Rejects Saul

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - And Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction[fn] all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:4 - So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:5 - And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:7 - And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves[fn] and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:10 - The word of the LORD came to Samuel:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I regret[fn] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:13 - And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
he has also rejected you from being king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:24 - Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25 - Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:27 - As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:31 - So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully.[fn] Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:34 - Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
ESV Footnotes
That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21
The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain
See also verses 29, 35
Or haltingly (compare Septuagint); the Hebrew is uncertain

1 Samuel 16

David Anointed King

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:3 - And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:4 - Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:5 - And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:6 - When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest,[fn] but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:12 - And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

David in Saul’s Service

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:14 - Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the LORD tormented him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:15 - And Saul’s servants said to him, “Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:16 - Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:17 - So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:18 - One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:19 - Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:20 - And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:21 - And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:22 - And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:23 - And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.
ESV Footnotes
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1 Samuel 17

David and Goliath

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:1 - Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:2 - And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:3 - And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:4 - And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six[fn] cubits[fn] and a span.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels[fn] of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6 - And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:7 - The shaft 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - 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 serve us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:10 - And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:11 - When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:12 - Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:13 - The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:14 - David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:15 - but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:16 - For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:17 - And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah[fn] of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:19 - Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:20 - And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:21 - And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:22 - And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:23 - As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:24 - All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25 - And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:26 - And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:27 - And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:28 - Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:29 - And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:30 - And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:31 - When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:36 - Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:37 - And David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:38 - Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:41 - And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:42 - And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43 - And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:45 - Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:46 - This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:48 - When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:49 - And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:50 - So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:51 - Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:52 - And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath[fn] and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:54 - And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:55 - As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:56 - And the king said, “Inquire whose son the boy is.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:57 - And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:58 - And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
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Hebrew; Septuagint, Dead Sea Scroll and Josephus four
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew advanced among men
An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Septuagint; Hebrew Gai
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