David and Goliath

Israel's army stood on one hill and the Philistine army on another, with a valley between them. Every morning and every evening a giant soldier named Goliath came out, wearing heavy brass armor and carrying a huge spear. "Choose a man to come and fight me!" he shouted. For forty days he shouted, and King Saul and all Israel were very afraid.

David was a shepherd boy, the youngest of eight brothers. His father Jesse sent him to the camp with bread and cheese for his brothers. While David was there, he heard Goliath shout. David said, "Who is this Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

"I will go and fight him," David told King Saul. Saul said, "You cannot. You are only a boy." But David said, "I keep my father's sheep. When a lion and a bear took a lamb, the LORD saved me from them. The LORD will save me from this Philistine too." So Saul said, "Go, and the LORD be with you."

Saul dressed David in his own armor, but David was not used to it, so he took it off. He took his staff, his sling, and five smooth stones from the brook.

Goliath made fun of David. But David said, "You come to me with a sword and a spear. I come to you in the name of the LORD. The battle is the LORD's!"

David ran toward the giant and slung a stone. It hit Goliath in the forehead, and down he fell, dead. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away, and the men of Israel shouted and chased them.