And 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.
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army
against army.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
And 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.
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
and were sore afraid.
And 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.
And 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?
By "carriage" is meant luggage, the things David had brought for his
brothers, not a conveyance as in our modern sense.
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