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## 1 Samuel 17:21 in Context (Verses 18–24 KJV)
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/18) And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of *their* thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.**
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/19) Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, *were* in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/20) ¶ 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 trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.**
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/21) For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/22) And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.**
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/23) And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard *them*.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-samuel/17/24) And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.*
 
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