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1 SAM 17:1–17:11 ©

This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Goliat Challenges the Israelis

17:1 Goliat Challenges the Israelis

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17At that time, the Philistines gathered their army divisions together ready for battle. They assembled at Sokoh in Yehudah, and camped between Sokoh and Azekah in Efes-Dammim. 2Sha’ul and the Israeli warriors gathered and camped in the Elah valley, then they arranged themselves for battle against the Philistines. 3So the Philistines stood on one hill and the Israelis on the opposite hill, with the valley between them.

4Then the Philistines sent a champion out from their camp to represent them. His name was Goliat and he came from Gat, and he was almost three metres[fn] tall. 5He wore a bronze helmet, and his body armour had overlapping plates weighing a total of some fifty-five kilograms. 6He had bronze armour on his legs, and a bronze plate[fn] between his shoulders. 7The wooden shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam and his spear time weighed around seven kilograms. His shield-bearer walked in front of him. 8Goliat stood there and called out to the Israeli warriors, “Why have you all come out to line up for battle? Now, I’m down here as a Philistine, and all of you are Sha’ul’s slaves, so choose a man for yourselves and let him come down here to fight me. 9If he’s able to fight with me and kill me, then we’ll become your slaves. But if I’m the winner and kill him, then you’ll all become our slaves and work for us.” 10Then he said, “I personally scoff at Yisrael’s lines today. Give me a man so we can fight together.” 11When Sha’ul and the Israelis heard all that, they were discouraged and very afraid.


17:4 Some Greek sources have a height closer to two metres.

17:6b It’s not totally clear what’s being described in the second part of this sentence, so other interpretations might differ.

1 SAM 17:1–17:11 ©

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