9. If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.”
10. Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.”
11. On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.
12. Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old.
13. Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah.
14. David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul,
15. but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
16. For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.
17. Now Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.