1 Samuel 17:45-58

New American Standard Bible

⁴⁵ But David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a ^[a]saber, ^(A)but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. ⁴⁶ This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you and remove your head from you. Then I will give the ^(B)dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, ^(C)so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, ⁴⁷ and that this entire assembly may know that ^(D)the Lord does not save by sword or by spear; ^(E)for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will hand you over to us!”

⁴⁸ Then it happened, when the Philistine ^[b]came closer to meet David, that ^(F)David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. ⁴⁹ And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

⁵⁰ So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and the stone: he struck the Philistine and killed him, and there was no sword in David’s hand. ⁵¹ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and ^(G)took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and finished him, and cut off his head with it. ^(H)When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. ⁵² Then the men of Israel and Judah rose up and shouted, and they pursued the Philistines ^[c]as far as the valley, and to the gates of ^(I)Ekron. And the Philistine dead ^[d]lay along the way to ^(J)Shaaraim, even to Gath and Ekron. ⁵³ Then the sons of Israel returned from their close pursuit of the Philistines, and plundered their camps. ⁵⁴ And David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.

⁵⁵ Now when Saul had seen David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is ^(K)this young man?” And Abner said, “By your life, O king, I do not know.” ⁵⁶ And the king said, “You then, ask whose son the youth is.” ⁵⁷ So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and ^(L)brought him before Saul with the Philistine’s head in his hand. ⁵⁸ Then Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “^(M)I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”