10. Here and now I challenge Israel's whole army! Choose someone to fight me!
11. Saul and his men heard what Goliath said, but they were so frightened of Goliath that they couldn't do a thing.
12. David's father Jesse was an old man, who belonged to the Ephrath clan and lived in Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons:
13-14. the eldest was Eliab, the next was Abinadab, and Shammah was the third. The three of them had gone off to fight in Saul's army.David was Jesse's youngest son.
15. He took care of his father's sheep, and he went back and forth between Bethlehem and Saul's camp.
16. Goliath came out and gave his challenge every morning and every evening for forty days.
17. One day, Jesse told David, “Hurry and take this sack of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers at the army camp.
18. And here are ten large chunks of cheese to take to their commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are doing and bring back something that shows that they're all right.
19. They're with Saul's army, fighting the Philistines in Elah Valley.”
20. David obeyed his father. He got up early the next morning and left someone else in charge of the sheep; then he loaded the supplies and started off. He reached the army camp just as the soldiers were taking their places and shouting the battle cry.
21. The army of Israel and the Philistine army stood there facing each other.
22. David left his things with the man in charge of supplies and ran up to the battle line to ask his brothers if they were well.