8 Goliath went out and shouted to the army of Israel:Why are you lining up for battle? I'm the best soldier in our army, and all of you are in Saul's army. Choose your best soldier to come out and fight me!
9 If he can kill me, our people will be your slaves. But if I kill him, your people will be our slaves.
10 Here and now I challenge Israel's whole army! Choose someone to fight me!
11 Saul and his men heard what Goliath said, but they were so frightened of Goliath that they couldn't do a thing.
12 David's father Jesse was an old man, who belonged to the Ephrath clan and lived in Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons:
13-14 the eldest was Eliab, the next was Abinadab, and Shammah was the third. The three of them had gone off to fight in Saul's army.David was Jesse's youngest son.
15 He took care of his father's sheep, and he went back and forth between Bethlehem and Saul's camp.