10 Also the Philistine said, I defy the host of Israel this day: give me a man, that we may fight [a]together.

11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were discouraged, and greatly afraid.

12 ¶ Now this David was the (A)son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, named Jesse, which had eight sons: and [b]this man was taken for an old man in the days of Saul.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:10 Or, hand to hand.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:12 Or, he was counted among them that bare office.

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