Heroes Every Child Should Know

nd were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Ju

gether, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and

one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the

mp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Ga

he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weigh

pon his legs, and a target of

m; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekel

are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and

ll we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, a

armies of Israel this day; give me

ose words of the Philistine, they

dah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and th

sons of Jesse went an

of his three sons that

and next unto him A

am

ngest: and the three

urned from Saul to fee

hle

r morning and evening, and

y brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and thes

ptain of their thousand, and look how t

d all the men of Israe

ng with the

, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the tre

tines had put the battle

the keeper of the carriage, and ran into

them, behold, there ca

oliath by name, out

according to the same

h

hen they saw the man, fled f

s he come up; and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the King will enrich him with

n that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who

this manner, saying, So shall it b

and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I

t have I now done?

spake after the same manner: and the people

h David spake, they rehearsed them

eart fail because of him; thy servant

ainst this Philistine to fight with him: for thou

his father's sheep, and there came a lion,

d it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me,

is uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them

n, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of

d he put an helmet of brass upon his hea

for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go

of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a s

w near unto David; and the man tha

w David, he disdained him: for he was but a

dog, that thou comest to me with staves?

e, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls

with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of th

thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the

aveth not with sword and spear: for the battle i

d came and drew nigh to meet David, that David has

slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the sto

and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and sl

nd drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head

s, until thou comest to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of

Irsael returned fr

nd they spoile

ead of the Philistin

he put his armo

unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this y

Enquire thou whose

hilistine, Abner took him, and brought him before

hou young man? And David answered, I am the