9. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we become your slaves; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then will you become our slaves and serve us.”
10. The Philistine added, “Today I defy the ranks of Israel—give me a man, so we may fight together!”
11. But when Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and very terrified.
12. Now David was son of a certain Ephrathite man of Beth-lehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse. He had eight sons and during the days of Saul the man was old, advanced in years among men.
13. Now the three oldest sons of Jesse had already left and gone after Saul to the battle; the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14. David was the youngest. So the three oldest followed Saul.
15. Now David would go back and forth from Saul to tending his father’s sheep by Beth-lehem.
16. For forty days that Philistine would come out every morning and evening to present himself.