1 En die Filistyne het hulle leër versamel vir die oorlog en bymekaargekom by Sogo wat aan Juda behoort, en laer opgeslaan tussen Sogo en As,ka in Efes-Dammim.
2 Maar Saul en die manne van Israel het byeengekom en laer opgeslaan in die dal van die terpentynboom en hulle in slagorde teenoor die Filistyne opgestel.
3 En die Filistyne het duskant teen die berg en die Israeliete oorkant teen die berg gestaan, sodat die dal tussen hulle in was.
4 Toe kom daar 'n baasvegter uit die laers van die Filistyne, met die naam van Goliat, uit Gat; sy hoogte was ses el en 'n span.
5 Daar was 'n koperhelm op sy hoof, en hy het 'n pantser van skubbe aangehad -- die gewig van die pantser was vyf duisend sikkels koper --
6 en skeenplate van koper was aan sy bene en 'n koperlans tussen sy skouers.
7 Die steel van sy spies was soos 'n wewersbalk, en die lem van sy spies was van ses honderd sikkels yster, en die skilddraer het voor hom uit geloop.
8 En hy het gaan staan en roep na die slagordes van Israel en vir hulle gesê: Waarom trek julle uit om jul in slagorde op te stel? Is ek nie die Filistyn, en julle dienaars van Saul nie? Kies vir julle 'n man uit, dat hy na my toe afkom.
9 As hy teen my kan veg en my verslaan, sal ons julle slawe wees; maar as ek hom oorwin en hom verslaan, moet julle ons slawe wees en ons dien.
10 Verder sê die Filistyn: Ek daag die slagordes van Israel vandag uit! Gee my 'n man, dat ons saam kan veg.
11 Toe Saul en die hele Israel hierdie woorde van die Filistyn hoor, was hulle verskrik en baie bevrees.
12 En Dawid was die seun van die Efratiet, uit Betlehem-Juda, met die naam van Isai; hy het agt seuns gehad, en die man was in Saul se dae oud, op jare gekom onder die manne.
13 Maar die drie oudste seuns van Isai het Saul al in die oorlog gevolg; en die name van sy drie seuns wat in die oorlog gegaan het, was: El¡ab, die oudste, en sy tweede, Abin dab, en die derde, Samma.
14 Dawid was die jongste, terwyl die drie oudstes Saul gevolg het.
15 En Dawid het heen en weer gegaan van Saul om die kleinvee van sy vader in Betlehem op te pas.
16 En die Filistyn het smôre ns vroeg en saans nader gekom en gaan staan, veertig dae lank.
17 Toe het Isai aan sy seun Dawid gesê: Neem tog vir jou broers 'n efa van hierdie gebraaide koring en hierdie tien brode, en bring dit gou vir jou broers na die laer toe.
18 Maar hierdie tien skywe kaas moet jy bring na die owerste oor duisend, en jy moet ondersoek doen na die welstand van jou broers en van hulle 'n pand saambring.
19 En Saul en hulle en al die manne van Israel was besig om te veg teen die Filistyne in die dal van die terpentynboom.
20 En die volgende môre vroeg het Dawid hom klaargemaak: die kleinvee aan die wagter afgegee en opgelaai en weggegaan soos Isai hom beveel het. En toe hy by die wa-laer kom, hef die leërmag wat na die vegterrein uittrek, juis die krygsgeskreeu aan.
21 Israel sowel as die Filistyne het slagorde teenoor slagorde opgestel.
22 Daarop gee Dawid sy pakgoed af onder bewaring van die oppasser van die pakgoed, en hy hardloop na die vegterrein. Toe hy daar aankom, vra hy sy broers na die welstand.
23 En terwyl hy met hulle spreek, kom juis die baasvegter -- Goliat is sy naam, die Filistyn uit Gat -- uit die slagordes van die Filistyne op en spreek daardie selfde woorde, sodat Dawid dit hoor.
24 Maar toe al die manne van Israel die man sien, vlug hulle vir hom weg, want hulle was baie bang.
25 En die manne van Israel sê: Het julle die man gesien wat daar opkom? Want hy kom op om Israel uit te daag. En die koning sal die man wat hom verslaan, oorlaai met groot rykdom; ook sal hy sy dogter aan hom gee en sy familie in Israel vrystel van belasting.
26 Daarop het Dawid die manne wat by hom staan, gevra en gesê: Wat sal met die man gebeur wat hierdie Filistyn verslaan en die smaad van Israel wegneem? Want wie is hierdie onbesnede Filistyn, dat hy die slagordes van die lewende God durf uitdaag?
27 En die manskappe gee hom dieselfde antwoord: So sal met die man gebeur wat hom verslaan.
28 Toe sy oudste broer El¡ab hom met die manne hoor spreek, het El¡ab baie kwaad geword vir Dawid en gesê: Waarom het jy eintlik afgekom, en aan wie het jy daardie klompie kleinvee in die woestyn afgegee? Ek ken jou vermetelheid en die boosheid van jou hart, want jy het afgekom om die geveg te sien.
29 En Dawid sê: Wat het ek nou gedoen? Ek vra maar net.
30 En hy het by hom weggedraai na iemand anders en dieselfde woorde gespreek, en die manskappe het hom geantwoord volgens die eerste woorde.
31 Toe hulle die woorde hoor wat Dawid spreek en dit voor Saul meedeel, het die hom laat haal.
32 En Dawid het aan Saul gesê: Laat die manne se moed tog nie ter wille van hom sink nie. U dienaar sal gaan en teen hierdie Filistyn veg.
33 Maar Saul het Dawid geantwoord: Jy kan nie na hierdie Filistyn gaan om teen hom te veg nie, want jy is 'n seun, en hy is 'n krygsman van sy jeug af.
34 Daarop sê Dawid aan Saul: U dienaar het vir sy vader die kleinvee opgepas, en as daar 'n leeu of 'n beer kom en 'n stuk kleinvee uit die trop wegdra,
35 dan gaan ek uit agter hom aan en verslaan hom en ruk dit uit sy bek uit; en as hy my aanval, gryp ek hom aan sy baard en verslaan hom en maak hom dood.
36 U dienaar het die leeu sowel as die beer doodgeslaan, en met hierdie onbesnede Filistyn sal dit gaan net soos met een van hulle, omdat hy die slagordes van die lewende God uitgedaag het.
37 Verder sê Dawid: Die HERE wat my gered het uit die klou van die leeu en uit die klou van die beer, Hy sal my red uit die hand van hierdie Filistyn. Toe sê Saul vir Dawid: Gaan, en mag die HERE met jou wees!
38 En Saul het Dawid sy klere laat aantrek en 'n koperhelm op sy hoof gesit en hom 'n pantser laat aantrek.
39 En Dawid het sy swaard bo-oor sy klere vasgegord, en toe hy moeite doen om te loop, omdat hy dit nooit probeer het nie, sê Dawid vir Saul: Ek kan nie hierin loop nie, want ek het dit nooit probeer nie. En Dawid het dit uitgetrek.
40 Daarop neem hy sy staf in sy hand en soek vir hom uit die spruit vyf gladde klippe uit en steek dit in sy herderstas wat hy gehad het, naamlik in die slingersak; en met sy slinger in sy hand het hy nader gekom na die Filistyn.
41 Ook die Filistyn het al nader en nader gekom na Dawid, en die skilddraer voor hom uit.
42 Toe die Filistyn opkyk en Dawid sien, het hy hom verag, omdat hy 'n seun was -- rooierig, met 'n mooi voorkoms.
43 En die Filistyn vra vir Dawid: Is ek 'n hond dat jy met stokke na my toe kom? En die Filistyn het Dawid vervloek by sy gode.
44 Verder sê die Filistyn vir Dawid: Kom na my toe, dat ek jou vlees aan die voëls van die hemel en die diere van die veld kan gee.
45 Maar Dawid sê vir die Filistyn: Jy kom na my met 'n swaard en met 'n spies en met 'n lans, maar ek kom na jou in die Naam van die HERE van die leërskare, die God van die slagordes van Israel, wat jy uitgedaag het.
46 Vandag sal die HERE jou in my hand oorlewer, dat ek jou kan verslaan en jou hoof van jou wegneem, en die lyke van die leër van die Filistyne vandag aan die voëls van die hemel en die wilde diere van die aarde kan gee, sodat die hele aarde kan weet dat Israel 'n God het.
47 Dan sal hierdie hele menigte moet erken dat die HERE nie deur swaard en deur spies verlos nie; want die stryd behoort aan die HERE, en Hy sal julle in ons hand gee.
48 Toe die Filistyn hom dan klaarmaak en aldeur nader kom om Dawid te ontmoet, loop Dawid gou na die vegterrein om die Filistyn te ontmoet;
49 en Dawid steek sy hand in die tas en neem 'n klip daaruit en slinger, en hy tref die Filistyn in sy voorhoof, sodat die klip in sy voorhoof indring en hy op sy gesig teen die grond val.
50 So het Dawid dan die Filistyn oorweldig met 'n slinger en 'n klip. En hy het die Filistyn verslaan en hom gedood alhoewel daar geen swaard in Dawid se hand was nie.
51 Daarop het Dawid gehardloop en by die Filistyn gaan staan en sy swaard geneem, dit uit sy skede getrek en hom van kant gemaak, en hy het daarmee sy hoof afgekap. Toe die Filistyne sien dat hulle held dood was, het hulle gevlug.
52 Toe het die manne van Israel en van Juda hulle klaargemaak en gejuig en die Filistyne agtervolg tot by die ingang na Gat en tot by die poorte van Ekron, sodat die gesneuweldes van die Filistyne gelê het op die pad van Sa„r im en tot by Gat en tot by Ekron.
53 Daarna het die kinders van Israel teruggekeer van die hewige agtervolging van die Filistyne en hulle laer geplunder.
54 En Dawid het die hoof van die Filistyn geneem en dit na Jerusalem gebring, maar sy wapens in sy tent neergesit.
55 Net toe Saul Dawid sien uittrek om die Filistyn te ontmoet, sê hy vir Abner, die leërowerste: Wie se seun is die jongman tog, Abner? En Abner antwoord: So waar as u siel leef, koning, ek weet dit nie!
56 En die koning sê: Vra jy wie se seun die jongman tog is.
57 En toe Dawid terugkom nadat hy die Filistyn verslaan het, het Abner hom geneem en hom voor Saul gebring, met die hoof van die Filistyn in sy hand.
58 En Saul vra hom: Wie se seun is jy, jongman? En Dawid sê: Die seun van u dienaar Isai, die Betlehemiet.
1 Now the Philistines got their armies together for war, and came together at Socoh in the land of Judah, and took up their position between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.
3 The Philistines were stationed on the mountain on one side and Israel on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
4 And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
5 And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.
6 His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.
7 The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.
8 He took up his position and in a loud voice said to the armies of Israel, Why have you come out to make war? Am I not a Philistine and you servants of Saul? Send out a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.
9 If he is able to have a fight with me and overcome me, then we will be your servants: but if I am able to overcome him, then you will be our servants and do work for us.
10 And the Philistine said, I have put to shame the armies of Israel this day; give me a man so that we may have a fight together.
11 And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.
12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.
13 And the three oldest sons of Jesse had gone with Saul to the fight: the names of the three who went to the fight were Eliab, the oldest, and Abinadab the second, and Shammah the third.
14 And David was the youngest: and the three oldest were with Saul's army.
15 Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
16 And the Philistine came near every morning and evening for forty days.
17 And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;
18 And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.
19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20 And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.
21 And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.
22 And David gave his parcels into the hands of the keeper of the army stores, and went running to the army and came to his brothers to get knowledge about them.
23 And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw him, went in flight, overcome with fear.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man? Clearly he has come out to put shame on Israel: and it is certain that if any man overcomes him, the king will give that man great wealth, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's family free in Israel.
26 And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?
27 And the people gave him this answer, So it will be done to the man who overcomes him.
28 And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.
29 And David said, What have I done now? was it not only a word?
30 And turning away from him to one of the other men, he said the same words: and the people gave him the same answer.
31 And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.
34 And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,
35 I went out after him, and overcame him, and took it out of his mouth: and if, turning on me, he came at me, I took him by the hair and overcame him and put him to death.
36 Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.
37 And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.
38 Then Saul gave David his clothing of war, and put a head-dress of brass on his head and had him clothed with a coat of metal.
39 And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off.
40 Then he took his stick in his hand, and got five smooth stones from the bed of the stream and put them in a bag such as is used by sheep-keepers; and in his hand was a leather band used for sending stones: and so he went in the direction of the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.
42 And when the Philistine, taking note, saw David, he had a poor opinion of him: for he was only a boy, red-haired and good-looking.
43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.
45 Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.
46 This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;
47 And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands.
48 Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face.
49 And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.
50 So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand.
51 So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.
53 Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.
55 And when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this young man? And Abner said, On your life, O king, I have no idea.
56 And the king said, Make search and see whose son this young man is.
57 And when David was coming back after the destruction of the Philistine, Abner took him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Young man, whose son are you? And David in answer said, I am the son of your servant Jesse of Beth-lehem.