...The Philistines were stationed on one hill and the Israelites on an opposite hill, with a valley between them...A champion named Goliath of Gath came out from the Philistine camp; he was six and a half feet tall. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a bronze corselet of scale armor weighing five thousand shekels, and bronze greaves, and had a bronze scimitar slung from a baldric. The shaft of his javelin was like a weaver’s heddle-bar, and its iron head weighed six hundred shekels. He shouted to the ranks of Israel: "Choose one of your own men, and have him come down to me. If he beats me in combat, we will be your vassals; but if I beat him and kill him, you shall be our vassals and serve us." ... Saul and all the men of Israel were dismayed and terror-stricken.Then David spoke to Saul: "Let your majesty not loose courage, I am at your service to go and fight this Philistine". But Saul then said to David: "You cannot go up against this Philistine and fight with him, for you are only a youth, while he has been a warrior from his youth". Then David said to Saul: "Your servant used to tend his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came to carry off a sheep from the flock, I would go after it and attack it and rescue the prey from its mouth. If it attacked me, I would seize it by the jaw, strike it and kill it...The Lord, who delivered me from the claws of of the lion and the bear, will also keep me safe from the clutches of this Philistine"...The Philistine cursed David by his gods and said to him: "Come here to me and I will leave your flesh for the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields". David answered him: "You come against me with sword and spear and scimitar, but I come against you in the name of the Lord of hosts...Today the Lord will deliver you into my hand".