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Read Full Chapter (1 Samuel 17) 1 Samuel 17:9-10 KJV
"If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together."
1 Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 9-10
1 Samuel 17:9-10 in Context (Verses 6–13 KJV)
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And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.*
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And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
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And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
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If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
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And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
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When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
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¶ Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
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And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.