1 E os filisteus ajuntaram as suas forças para a guerra e congregaram-se em Socó, que está em Judá, e acamparam-se entre Socó e Azeca, no termo de Damim.
2 Porém Saul e os homens de Israel se ajuntaram e acamparam no vale do carvalho, e ordenaram a batalha contra os filisteus.
3 E os filisteus estavam num monte de um lado, e os israelitas estavam num monte do outro lado; e o vale estava entre eles.
4 Então saiu do arraial dos filisteus um homem guerreiro, cujo nome era Golias, de Gate, que tinha de altura seis côvados e um palmo.
5 Trazia na cabeça um capacete de bronze, e vestia uma couraça de escamas; e era o peso da couraça de cinco mil siclos de bronze.
6 E trazia grevas de bronze por cima de seus pés, e um escudo de bronze entre os seus ombros.
7 E a haste da sua lança era como o eixo do tecelão, e a ponta da sua lança de seiscentos siclos de ferro, e diante dele ia o escudeiro.
8 E parou, e clamou às companhias de Israel, e disse-lhes: Para que saireis a ordenar a batalha? Não sou eu filisteu e vós servos de Saul? Escolhei dentre vós um homem que desça a mim.
9 Se ele puder pelejar comigo, e me ferir, a vós seremos por servos; porém, se eu o vencer, e o ferir, então a nós sereis por servos, e nos servireis.
10 Disse mais o filisteu: Hoje desafio as companhias de Israel, dizendo: Dai-me um homem, para que ambos pelejemos.
11 Ouvindo então Saul e todo o Israel estas palavras do filisteu, espantaram-se, e temeram muito.
12 E Davi era filho de um homem efrateu, de Belém de Judá, cujo nome era Jessé, que tinha oito filhos; e nos dias de Saul era este homem já velho e adiantado em idade entre os homens.
13 Foram-se os três filhos mais velhos de Jessé, e seguiram a Saul à guerra; e eram os nomes de seus três filhos, que se foram à guerra, Eliabe, o primogênito, e o segundo Abinadabe, e o terceiro Sama.
14 E Davi era o menor; e os três maiores seguiram a Saul.
15 Davi, porém, ia e voltava de Saul, para apascentar as ovelhas de seu pai em Belém.
16 Chegava-se, pois, o filisteu pela manhã e à tarde; e apresentou-se por quarenta dias.
17 E disse Jessé a Davi, seu filho: Toma, peço-te, para teus irmãos um efa deste grão tostado e estes dez pães, e corre a levá-los ao arraial, a teus irmãos.
18 Porém estes dez queijos de leite leva ao capitão de mil; e visitarás a teus irmãos, a ver se vão bem; e tomarás o seu penhor.
19 E estavam Saul, e eles, e todos os homens de Israel no vale do carvalho, pelejando com os filisteus.
20 Davi então se levantou de madrugada, pela manhã, e deixou as ovelhas com um guarda, e carregou-se, e partiu, como Jessé lhe ordenara; e chegou ao lugar dos carros, quando já o exército saía em ordem de batalha, e a gritos chamavam à peleja.
21 E os israelitas e filisteus se puseram em ordem, fileira contra fileira.
22 E Davi deixou a carga que trouxera na mão do guarda da bagagem, e correu à batalha; e, chegando, perguntou a seus irmãos se estavam bem.
23 E, estando ele ainda falando com eles, eis que vinha subindo do exército dos filisteus o homem guerreiro, cujo nome era Golias, o filisteu de Gate; e falou conforme àquelas palavras, e Davi as ouviu.
24 Porém todos os homens em Israel, vendo aquele homem, fugiram de diante dele, e temiam grandemente.
25 E diziam os homens de Israel: Vistes aquele homem que subiu? Pois subiu para afrontar a Israel; há de ser, pois, que, o homem que o ferir, o rei o enriquecerá de grandes riquezas, e lhe dará a sua filha, e fará livre a casa de seu pai em Israel.
26 Então falou Davi aos homens que estavam com ele, dizendo: Que farão àquele homem, que ferir a este filisteu, e tirar a afronta de sobre Israel? Quem é, pois, este incircunciso filisteu, para afrontar os exércitos do Deus vivo?
27 E o povo lhe tornou a falar conforme àquela palavra dizendo: Assim farão ao homem que o ferir.
28 E, ouvindo Eliabe, seu irmão mais velho, falar àqueles homens, acendeu-se a ira de Eliabe contra Davi, e disse: Por que desceste aqui? Com quem deixaste aquelas poucas ovelhas no deserto? Bem conheço a tua presunção, e a maldade do teu coração, que desceste para ver a peleja.
29 Então disse Davi: Que fiz eu agora? Porventura não há razão para isso?
30 E desviou-se dele para outro, e falou conforme àquela palavra; e o povo lhe tornou a responder conforme às primeiras palavras.
31 E, ouvidas as palavras que Davi havia falado, as anunciaram a Saul, que mandou chamá-lo.
32 E Davi disse a Saul: Não desfaleça o coração de ninguém por causa dele; teu servo irá, e pelejará contra este filisteu.
33 Porém Saul disse a Davi: Contra este filisteu não poderás ir para pelejar com ele; pois tu ainda és moço, e ele homem de guerra desde a sua mocidade.
34 Então disse Davi a Saul: Teu servo apascentava as ovelhas de seu pai; e quando vinha um leão e um urso, e tomava uma ovelha do rebanho,
35 Eu saía após ele e o feria, e livrava-a da sua boca; e, quando ele se levantava contra mim, lançava-lhe mão da barba, e o feria e o matava.
36 Assim feria o teu servo o leão, como o urso; assim será este incircunciso filisteu como um deles; porquanto afrontou os exércitos do Deus vivo.
37 Disse mais Davi: O Senhor me livrou das garras do leão, e das do urso; ele me livrará da mão deste filisteu. Então disse Saul a Davi: Vai, e o Senhor seja contigo.
38 E Saul vestiu a Davi de suas vestes, e pôs-lhe sobre a cabeça um capacete de bronze; e o vestiu de uma couraça.
39 E Davi cingiu a espada sobre as suas vestes, e começou a andar; porém nunca o havia experimentado; então disse Davi a Saul: Não posso andar com isto, pois nunca o experimentei. E Davi tirou aquilo de sobre si.
40 E tomou o seu cajado na mão, e escolheu para si cinco seixos do ribeiro, e pô-los no alforje de pastor, que trazia, a saber, no surrão, e lançou mão da sua funda; e foi aproximando-se do filisteu.
41 O filisteu também vinha se aproximando de Davi; e o que lhe levava o escudo ia adiante dele.
42 E, olhando o filisteu, e vendo a Davi, o desprezou, porquanto era moço, ruivo, e de gentil aspecto.
43 Disse, pois, o filisteu a Davi: Sou eu algum cão, para tu vires a mim com paus? E o filisteu pelos seus deuses amaldiçoou a Davi.
44 Disse mais o filisteu a Davi: Vem a mim, e darei a tua carne às aves do céu e às bestas do campo.
45 Davi, porém, disse ao filisteu: Tu vens a mim com espada, e com lança, e com escudo; porém eu venho a ti em nome do Senhor dos Exércitos, o Deus dos exércitos de Israel, a quem tens afrontado.
46 Hoje mesmo o Senhor te entregará na minha mão, e ferir-te-ei, e tirar-te-ei a cabeça, e os corpos do arraial dos filisteus darei hoje mesmo às aves do céu e às feras da terra; e toda a terra saberá que há Deus em Israel;
47 E saberá toda esta congregação que o Senhor salva, não com espada, nem com lança; porque do Senhor é a guerra, e ele vos entregará na nossa mão.
48 E sucedeu que, levantando-se o filisteu, e indo encontrar-se com Davi, apressou-se Davi, e correu ao combate, a encontrar-se com o filisteu.
49 E Davi pôs a mão no alforje, e tomou dali uma pedra e com a funda lha atirou, e feriu o filisteu na testa, e a pedra se lhe encravou na testa, e caiu sobre o seu rosto em terra.
50 Assim Davi prevaleceu contra o filisteu, com uma funda e com uma pedra, e feriu o filisteu, e o matou; sem que Davi tivesse uma espada na mão.
51 Por isso correu Davi, e pôs-se em pé sobre o filisteu, e tomou a sua espada, e tirou-a da bainha, e o matou, e lhe cortou com ela a cabeça; vendo então os filisteus, que o seu herói era morto, fugiram.
52 Então os homens de Israel e Judá se levantaram, e jubilaram, e seguiram os filisteus, até chegar ao vale, e até às portas de Ecrom; e caíram os feridos dos filisteus pelo caminho de Saaraim até Gate e até Ecrom.
53 Então voltaram os filhos de Israel de perseguirem os filisteus, e despojaram os seus arraiais.
54 E Davi tomou a cabeça do filisteu, e a trouxe a Jerusalém; porém pôs as armas dele na sua tenda.
55 Vendo, porém, Saul, sair Davi a encontrar-se com o filisteu, disse a Abner, o capitão do exército: De quem é filho este moço, Abner? E disse Abner: Vive a tua alma, ó rei, que o não sei.
56 Disse então o rei: Pergunta, pois, de quem é filho este moço.
57 Voltando, pois, Davi de ferir o filisteu, Abner o tomou consigo, e o trouxe à presença de Saul, trazendo ele na mão a cabeça do filisteu.
58 E disse-lhe Saul: De quem és filho, jovem? E disse Davi: Filho de teu servo Jessé, belemita.
1 Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle. And they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the 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 Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail. And the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.
7 And the staff 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 cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have ye come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
9 If he is able to fight with me, and kill me, then we will be your servants, but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then ye shall be our servants, and serve us.
10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.
11 And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name was Jesse. And he had eight sons, and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14 And David was the youngest, and the three eldest followed Saul.
15 Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17 And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for thy brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to thy brothers.
18 And bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand. And look how thy brothers fare, and take their pledge.
19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
21 And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
22 And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and saluted his brothers.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words, and David heard them.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were greatly afraid.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man who has come up? Surely to defy Israel he has come up. And it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and m
26 And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the l
27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that kills him.
28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have thou come down? And with whom have thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and t
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
30 And he turned away 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 which David spoke, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him. Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for thou are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
34 And David said to Saul, Thy servant was keeping his father's sheep, and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
35 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 Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.
37 And David said, LORD who 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 Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and LORD shall be with thee.
38 And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he attempted to go, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them. And David put them off of him.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose for him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. And his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then David said to the Philistine, Thou come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin, but I come to thee in the name of LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou have defied.
46 This day LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of
47 and that all this assembly may know that LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is LORD's, and he will give you into our hand.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took from there a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines until thou come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.
53 And the sons of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul lives, O king, I cannot tell.
56 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son are thou, young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.