d fight with
this Philistine."

But Saul looked at David, and said, "Thou art not able to go against
this Philistine, to fight with him, for thou art but a youth, and he
has been a man of war from his youth."

Then David said to Saul, "Once I was keeping my father's sheep, and
there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock; and I
went out after the lion, and struck him, and delivered the lamb out of
his mouth, and when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard, and
struck him, and slew him! Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear;
and this Philistine shall be as one of them, for he hath defied the
armies of the living God. The Lord, who delivered me out of the paw of
the lion and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine."

"Go," said Saul, "and the Lord be with thee!"

And he armed David with his own armor,--he put a helmet of brass upon
his head, and armed him with a coat of mail. But when David girded his
sword upon his armor, and tried to walk, he said to Saul, "I cannot go
with these, for I am not used to them." And he put them off.

Then he took his staff in his hand and went and chose five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had;
and his sling was in his hand; and he went out and drew near to the
Philistine.

And the Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man that
bore his shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about
and saw David, he disdained him, for David was but a boy, and ruddy,
and of a fair countenance. And he said to David, "Am I a dog, that
thou comest to me with a cudgel?" And with curses he cried out again,
"Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and
to the beasts of the field."

But David looked at him, and answered, "Thou comest to me with a sword,
and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of
the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast
defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand; and I will
smite thee, and take thy head from thee, and I will give the carcasses
of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and
to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there
is a God in Israel! And all this assembly shall know that the Lord
saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and he
will give you into our hands."