1 E os filisteus ajuntaram os seus arraiais 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 da banda dalém, e os israelitas estavam no outro monte da banda daquém; 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 eixo de tecelão, e o ferro 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, seremos vossos servos; porém, se eu o vencer e o ferir, então, sereis nossos 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 essas 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 na 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 foram à guerra, Eliabe, o primogênito, e o segundo, Abinadabe, e o terceiro, Samá. 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 chefe de mil; e visitarás teus irmãos, a ver se lhes vai 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 pela manhã, bem cedo, e deixou as ovelhas a um guarda, e carregou-se, e partiu, como Jessé lhe ordenara; e chegou ao lugar dos carros, quando já o arraial 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 aquelas palavras, e Davi as ouviu.

24 Porém todos os homens de Israel, vendo aquele homem, fugiam 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 ao homem que o ferir o rei o enriquecerá de grandes riquezas, e lhe dará a sua filha, e fará isenta de impostos 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 aquela 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? E a 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 aquela palavra; e o povo lhe tornou a responder conforme as primeiras palavras.

31 E, ouvidas as palavras que Davi havia falado, as anunciaram a Saul, e mandou em busca dele.

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 vinha um leão ou um urso e tomava uma ovelha do rebanho, 35 e eu saía após ele, e o feria, e a livrava da sua boca; e, levantando-se ele 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 da mão do leão e da do urso; ele me livrará da mão deste filisteu. Então, disse Saul a Davi: Vai-te embora, e o Senhor seja contigo. 38 E Saul vestiu a Davi das 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-se chegando ao filisteu.

41 O filisteu também veio e se vinha chegando a Davi; e o que lhe levava o escudo ia diante dele. 42 E, olhando o filisteu e vendo a Davi, o desprezou, porquanto era jovem 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 amaldiçoou a Davi, pelos seus deuses. 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 vou 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 te tirarei a cabeça, e os corpos do arraial dos filisteus darei hoje mesmo às aves do céu e às bestas 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 meteu 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 cravou 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 Pelo que 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 campeão 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 chefe do exército: De quem é filho este jovem, 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 jovem. 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 And the Philistines gathered together their camps to battle, and they gathered themselves together at Sochoh, which belongeth to Judah; and they encamped between Sochoh and ‘Azekah, at Ephess–dammim.

2 And Saul and the men of Israel gathered themselves together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and put themselves in battle–array opposite to the Philistines.

3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and the Israelites stood on a mountain on the other side: and the valley was between them.

4 And there went out the champion out of the camp of the Philistines, Goliath of Gath was his name, whose height was six cubits and a span.

5 And he had a helmet of copper upon his head, and he was clothed with a scaly coat of mail; and the weight of the coat of mail was five thousand shekels of copper.

6 And he had greaves of copper upon his legs, and a javelin of copper between his shoulders.

7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and the blade of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and the shield–bearer was walking before him.

8 And he stood and calleth unto the arrays of Israel, and said unto them, Why will ye come out to put yourselves in battle–array? Behold: I am the Philistine, and ye are servants to Saul! select for yourselves one man, and let him come down to me;

9 If he be able to fight with me, and he kill me, then will we be unto you as servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be unto us as servants, and ye shall serve us.

10 And the Philistine said, I have defied the arrays of Israel this day; give me a man, and let us fight together.

11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were disheartened, and became greatly afraid.

12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth–lechem–judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was old in the days of Saul, belonging to the persons of high esteem.

13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse were gone following Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that were gone to the battle were Eliab the first–born, and the next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

15 But David kept going and returning from Saul to feed his father’s flocks at Beth–lechem.

16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take, I pray thee, for thy brothers an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brothers;

18 And these ten cheeses shalt thou bring unto the captain of the thousand, and inquire of thy brothers how they fare, and take away 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 gave up the flocks to a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the entrenchment, as the host was going forth in battle–array, and shouted the battle–cry.

21 And the Israelites and the Philistines put themselves in battle–array, army against army.

22 And David left the articles which he had on him in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran into the array, and came and asked of his brothers after their welfare.

23 And as he was speaking with them, behold, there came up the champion, Goliath the Philistine, by name, of Gath, out of the battle–arrays of the Philistines, and spoke in accordance with these same words: and David heard it.

24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from before him, and were greatly afraid.

25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is coming forth? for to defy Israel is he coming forth; and it shall be, that the man who killeth him,––him will the king enrich with great riches, and his daughter will he give him, and his father’s house will he make free in Israel.

26 And David said to the men that stood by him, thus, What shall be done to the man that may smite yon Philistine, and take away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the arrays of the living God?

27 And the people spoke to him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that may smite him.

28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he was speaking unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why didst thou come down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy presumption, and the wickedness of thy heart; for in order to see the battle art thou come down.

29 And David said, What have I now done? It is nothing but a word.

30 And he turned from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people made him again a reply after the former manner.

31 And the words which David had spoken were heard, and they told them in the presence of Saul, who 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 art not able to go unto this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a lad, and he hath been a man of war from his youth.

34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant was feeding his father’s flocks, and there came a lion, and a bear, and bore off a lamb out of the drove;

35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he rose up against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

36 Both the lion and the bear did thy servant smite: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall become as one of them; because he hath defied the arrays of the living God.

37 Moreover David said, The Lord who hath delivered me out of the power of the lion, and out of the power of the bear, will also surely deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and may the Lord be with thee.

38 And Saul clothed David with his garments, and he put a helmet of copper upon his head; and he clothed him also with a coat of mail.

39 And David girded his sword over his garments, and he essayed to go; for he had not tried it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot walk in these things; for I have never tried it before. And David put them off from him.

40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s pouch which be had, even in a scrip, with his sling in his hand; and he approached to the Philistine.

41 And the Philistine went and drew nearer and nearer unto David; and the man that bore the shield went before him.

42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a lad, and ruddy, with a fair appearance.

43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest unto 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 unto the fowls of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field.

45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest unto me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the arrays of Israel, that thou hast defied.

46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and remove thy head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God for Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not through sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you up into our hand.

48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and went and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the battle–array to meet the Philistine.

49 And David put his hand into the pouch, and took thence a stone, and slung it, and he struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sunk into his forehead: and he fell upon his face to the ground.

50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

51 And David ran, and stood by the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they fled.

52 And then arose the men of Israel and of Judah, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to the valley, and to the gates of ‘Ekron. And the slain of the Philistines fell down by the way to Sha’arayim, even as far as Gath, and up to ‘Ekron.

53 And the children of Israel returned from hotly pursuing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their camps.

54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but his weapons he placed in his tent.

55 And when Saul saw David going forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this lad? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I know it not.

56 And the king said, Ask thou whose son this youth is.

57 And as David returned from smiting 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 art thou, young man? And David answered, The son of thy servant Jesse the Beth–lechemite.