21. The Israelites and the Philistines drew up opposite each other in battle array.
22. David entrusted what he had brought to the keeper of the baggage and hastened to the battle line, where he greeted his brothers.
23. While he was talking with them, the Philistine champion, by name Goliath of Gath, came up from the ranks of the Philistines and spoke as before, and David listened.
24. When the Israelites saw the man, they all retreated before him, terrified.
25. The Israelites had been saying: “Do you see this man coming up? He comes up to insult Israel. The king will make whoever kills him a very wealthy man. He will give his daughter to him and declare his father’s family exempt from taxes in Israel.”
26. David now said to the men standing near him: “How will the man who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from disgrace be rewarded? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should insult the armies of the living God?”
27. They repeated the same words to him and said, “That is how the man who kills him will be rewarded.”