RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

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Now the Plishtim gathered together their armies to
battle, and were gathered together at Sokhoh, which
belongs to Yahudah, and camped between Sokhoh and
Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim.
2 And Shaul and the men of Yisrael were gathered
together, and camped by the Valley of Elah, and began
the battle in battle against the Plishtim.
3 And the Plishtim stood on a mountain on the one side,
and Yisrael stood on a mountain on the other side: and
there was a valley between them.
4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the
Plishtim, named Golyat, of Gat, whose height was four
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cubits and a span.
5 And he had a helmet of bronze upon his head, and he
was armed with a coat of scaled armor; and the weight of
the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
6 And he had shin guards of bronze upon his legs, and a
spear of bronze between his shoulders.
7 And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and
his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and
his shield-bearer went before him.
8 And he stood and shouted to the armies of Yisrael, and
said to them, Why are you come out to set yourselves in
battle? Am not I a Plishti, and you avadim to Shaul?
Choose a man from among you, and let him come down
to me.
9 If he is able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will
we be your avadim: but if I prevail against him, and kill
him, then shall you be our avadim, and serve us.
10 And the Plishti said, I defy the armies of Yisrael this
day; give me a man that we may fight together.
11 When Shaul and kol Yisrael heard the words of the
Plishti, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12 Now Dawid was the son of the Ephrathite of Beth-
Lechem Yahudah, whose name was Yishai; and he had
eight sons: and in the days of Shaul, the man Yishai was
old and advanced in years.
13 And the three eldest sons of Yishai went and followed
Shaul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that
went to the battle were Eliav the bachor, and next to him
Aviniadav, and the third Shammah.
14 And Dawid was the youngest: and the three eldest
followed Shaul.
15 But Dawid went and returned from Shaul to feed his
abba's sheep at Beth-Lechem.
16 And the Plishti drew near morning and evening, and
presented himself for forty days.
17 And Yishai said to Dawid his son, Take now for your
brothers an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten
loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers;
18 And carry these ten cheeses to the leader of their
thousand, and look and see how your brothers are doing,
and bring back news.
19 Now Shaul, and they, and all the men of Yisrael, were
in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Plishtim.
20 And Dawid rose up early in the morning, and left the
sheep with a guardian, and took the items, and went, as
Yishai had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as
the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the
battle.
21 For Yisrael and the Plishtim were dressed for battle,
army against army.
22 And Dawid left his supplies in the hand of the
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guardian of the supplies, and ran into the army, and came
and greeted his brothers.
23 And as he talked with them, see, there came up the
champion, the Plishti of Gat, Golyat by name, out of the
armies of the Plishtim, and spoke the same threatening
words: and Dawid heard them.
24 And all the men of Yisrael, when they saw the man,
fled from him, and were heavy with fear.
25 And the men of Yisrael said, Have you seen this man
that has come up? Surely to defy Yisrael he is come up:
and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the melech
will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his
daughter, and make his abba's bayit receive exemptions in
Yisrael.
26 And Dawid spoke to the men that stood by him,
saying, What shall be done to the man that kills this
Plishti, and takes away the reproach from Yisrael? For
who is this uncircumcised Plishti, that he should defy the
armies of the living Elohim?
27 And the people answered him after this manner,
saying, So shall it be done to the man that kills him.
28 And Eliav his eldest brother heard when he spoke to
the men; and Eliav's anger was lit against Dawid, and he
said, Why did you come down here? And with whom
have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know
your pride, and the evil of your lev; for you have come
down that you might watch the battle.
29 And Dawid said, What have I now done? I was just
talking.
30 And he turned from him toward another, and spoke
after the same manner: and the people answered him
again after the former manner.
31 And when the words were heard that Dawid spoke,
they repeated them before Shaul: and he sent for him.
32 And Dawid said to Shaul, Let no man's lev fail
because of him; your eved will go and fight with this
Plishti.
33 And Shaul said to Dawid, You are not able to go
against this Plishti to fight with him: for you are but a
youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.
34 And Dawid said to Shaul, Your eved kept his abba's
sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb
out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and
delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against
me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and killed
him.
36 Your eved killed both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Plishti shall be as one of them, seeing he
has defied the armies of the living Elohim.
37 Dawid said moreover, vuvh that delivered me out of
the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He
will deliver me out of the hand of this Plishti. And Shaul
said to Dawid, Go, and vuvh be with you.
38 And Shaul armed Dawid with his armor, and he put a
helmet of bronze upon his head; also he armed him with a
coat of armor.
39 And Dawid girded his sword upon his armor, and he
began to go; but stopped for he had not tried them. And
Dawid said to Shaul, I cannot go with these; for I have not
tried them. And Dawid took them off.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose five
smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a
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