9 If he is able to fight with me and strike me down, we will become your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, you will become our servants and will serve us.”
10 Then the Philistine said, “I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight each other!”
11 When Saul and all the Israelites heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.
12 Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years.
13 Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest.
14 Now David was the youngest. While the three oldest sons followed Saul,
15 David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.