McGraw©Hill/Focus/David and Goliath p. 142////R7N8/ ***** When Saul was king over Israel, the Philistines called

together their armies for war against the Israelites. King Saul

and the men of Israel drew up in battle line facing the

Philistines. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the

other side, and their was a valley between them. Then there came out a champion from the camp of the

Philistines named Goliath of Gath. He was six cubits and a span

high. He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was armed

with a coat of mail that weighed five thousand shekels of brass.

He had covers of brass upon his legs and a shield of brass

between his shoulders. The staff of his spear was as big as a

beam and the spears head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. A

shield bearer walked before the champion. Goliath shouted across the valley to the armies of Israel

and said to them, "Why have you come out in battle array? Am not

I a Philistine and you are the servants of Saul? Choose a man

from among you and let him come down to meet me. If he can fight

me and kill me then will we be your servants, but if I overcome

him and kill him, then shall you be our servants and serve us."

And Goliath shouted again, "I defy the armies of Israel this day.

Send me a man from among you that we may fight together."