Here and now I challenge the Israelite army. I dare you to pick someone to fight me!"

"Look at him!" they said to each other. "Listen to his challenge! King Saul has promised to give a big reward to the man who kills him; the king will also give him his daughter to marry and will not require his father's family to pay taxes."

David asked the men who were near him, "What will the man get who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from this disgrace? After all, who is this heathen Philistine to defy the army of the living God?"

I have killed lions and bears, and I will do the same to this heathen Philistine, who has defied the army of the living God.

Where are the kings of the cities of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?"

Jonathan, King David's uncle, was a skillful adviser and a scholar. He and Jehiel son of Hachmoni were in charge of the education of the king's sons.

Jesse then brought Shammah. "No, the LORD hasn't chosen him either," Samuel said.

The Philistines lined up on one hill and the Israelites on another, with a valley between them.

Jesse had seven sons. In order of age they were: Eliab, Abinadab, Shammah,