English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Samuel Book, chapter 17, verse 51 in Lxxen Version

1 Samuel 17 : 1 (LXXEN)

And the Philistines gather their armies to battle, and gather themselves to Socchoth of Judaea, and encamp between Socchoth and Azeca

Alex. Aphesdommin

Ephermen.

1 Samuel 17 : 2 (LXXEN)

And Saul and the men of Israel gather together, and they encamp in the valley, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17 : 3 (LXXEN)

And the Philistines stand on the mountain on one side, and Israel stands on the mountain on the other side, and the valley was between them.

1 Samuel 17 : 4 (LXXEN)

And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath, by name, out of Geth, his height was four cubits and a span.

1 Samuel 17 : 5 (LXXEN)

And he had a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armour; and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass and iron.

1 Samuel 17 : 6 (LXXEN)

And greaves of grass were upon his legs, and a brazen target was between his shoulders.

1 Samuel 17 : 7 (LXXEN)

And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and

Gr. the spear

the spear’s head was formed of six hundred shekels of iron; and his armour-bearer went before him.

1 Samuel 17 : 8 (LXXEN)

And he stood and cried to the army of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come forth to set yourselves in battle array against us? Am not I a Philistine, and ye

Or, servants, ydbe being read as if yrbe

Hebrews of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 17 : 9 (LXXEN)

And if he shall be able to fight against me, and shall smite me, then will we be your servants: but if I should prevail and smite him, ye shall be our servants, and serve us.

1 Samuel 17 : 10 (LXXEN)

And the Philistine said, Behold, I have defied the armies of Israel this very day: give me a man, and we will both of us fight in single combat.

1 Samuel 17 : 11 (LXXEN)

And Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, and they were dismayed, and greatly terrified.

1 Samuel 17 : 12 (LXXEN)

Alex. And David son of an Ephrathite said, this Ephrathite was of Bethleem Juda, and his name was Jessae, and he had eight sons. And the man passed for an old man among men in the days of Saul.

1 Samuel 17 : 13 (LXXEN)

And the three elder sons of Jessae went and followed Saul to war, and the names of his sons that went to the war were, Eliab his first-born, and his second Aminadab, and his third son Samma.

1) Gr. name

1 Samuel 17 : 14 (LXXEN)

And David himself was the younger son, and the three elder followed Saul.

1) Gr. is

1 Samuel 17 : 15 (LXXEN)

And David departed and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s sheep in Bethleem.

1) Gr. feeding

1 Samuel 17 : 16 (LXXEN)

And the Philistine advanced morning and evening, and stood up forty days.

1 Samuel 17 : 17 (LXXEN)

And Jessae said to David, Take now to thy brethren an ephah of this meal, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp and give them to thy brothers.

1 Samuel 17 : 18 (LXXEN)

And thou shalt carry to the captain of the thousand these ten cheeses of milk, and thou shalt see how thy brethren fare, and learn what they want.

1) Lit. the ten cheeses of this milk

1 Samuel 17 : 19 (LXXEN)

And Saul himself and all the men of Israel were in the valley of the Oak, warring with the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17 : 20 (LXXEN)

And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep to a keeper, and took and went as Jessae commanded him, and he came to the trench and to the army as it was going out to fight, and they shouted for the battle.

1 Samuel 17 : 21 (LXXEN)

And Israel and the Philistines formed their lines one opposite the other.

1 Samuel 17 : 22 (LXXEN)

And David deposited his burden in the hand of a keeper, and ran to the line, and went and asked his brethren how they were.

1 Samuel 17 : 23 (LXXEN)

And while he was speaking with them, behold the Amessaean advanced, Goliath by name, the Philistine of Geth, of the armies of the Philistines, and he spoke as before, and David heard.

1) Gr. according to those words; See verse 8

1 Samuel 17 : 24 (LXXEN)

And all the men of Israel when they saw the man fled from before him, and they were greatly terrified.

1 Samuel 17 : 25 (LXXEN)

And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that comes up? for he has reproached Israel and has come up; and it shall be that the man who shall smite him, the king shall enrich him with great wealth, and shall give him his daughter, and shall make his gather’s house free in Israel.

1 Samuel 17 : 26 (LXXEN)

And David spoke to the men who stood with him, saying, Shall it indeed be done thus to the man who shall smite that Philistine, and take away reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he has defied the army of the living God?

1 Samuel 17 : 27 (LXXEN)

And the people spoke to him according to this word, saying, Thus shall it be done to the man who shall smite him.

1 Samuel 17 : 28 (LXXEN)

And Eliab his elder brother heard as he spoke to the men, and Eliab was very angry with David and said, Why hast thou thus come down, and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart, for thou art come down to see the battle.

1 Samuel 17 : 29 (LXXEN)

And David said, What have I done now? Have I no business here?

1) Gr. is there not a word?

1 Samuel 17 : 30 (LXXEN)

And he turned from him toward another, and he spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him after the former manner.

1) Lit. according to the word of the first

1 Samuel 17 : 31 (LXXEN)

And the words which David spoke were heard, and were reported to Saul. And he took him to himself.

1) Gr. behind Saul

1 Samuel 17 : 32 (LXXEN)

And David said to Saul, Let not, I pray thee, the heart of my lord be

Gr. upon him

dejected within him: thy servant will go, and fight with this Philistine.

1 Samuel 17 : 33 (LXXEN)

And Saul said to David, Thou wilt not in anywise be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for thou art a mere youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

1 Samuel 17 : 34 (LXXEN)

And David said to Saul, Thy servant was tending the flock for his father; and when a lion came and a she-bear, and took a sheep out of the flock,

1 Samuel 17 : 35 (LXXEN)

then I went forth after him, and smote him, and drew the spoil out of his mouth: and

Gr. if

as he rose up against me, then I caught hold of his throat, and smote him, and slew him.

1 Samuel 17 : 36 (LXXEN)

Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them: shall I not go and smite him, and remove this day a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

1 Samuel 17 : 37 (LXXEN)

The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this uncircumcised Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and the Lord shall be with thee.

1 Samuel 17 : 38 (LXXEN)

And Saul clothed David with a military coat, and put his brazen helmet on his head.

1 Samuel 17 : 39 (LXXEN)

And he girt David with his sword over his coat: and he

Gr. laboured

made trial walking with them once and again: and David said to Saul, I shall not be able to go with these, for I have not proved them: so they remove them from him.

1 Samuel 17 : 40 (LXXEN)

And he took his staff in his hand, and he chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s scrip which he had for his store, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.

1 Samuel 17 : 41 (LXXEN)

Alex. And the Philistine advanced and drew nigh to David, and a man bearing his shield went before him, and the Philistine looked on.

1 Samuel 17 : 42 (LXXEN)

And Goliath saw David, and despised him; for he was a lad, and ruddy,

Gr. with beauty of eyes.

with a fair countenance.

1 Samuel 17 : 43 (LXXEN)

And the Philistine said to David, Am I as a dog, that thou comest against me with a staff and stones?

The words in brackets not in Alex. or Hebrew

and David said, Nay, but worse than a dog. And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Samuel 17 : 44 (LXXEN)

And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.

1 Samuel 17 : 45 (LXXEN)

And David said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with spear, and with shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord God of hosts of the army of Israel, which thou hast defied

1 Samuel 17 : 46 (LXXEN)

this day. And the Lord shall

Gr. shut thee up

deliver thee this day into my hand; and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from off thee, and will give thy limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Samuel 17 : 47 (LXXEN)

And all this assembly shall know that the Lord delivers not by sword or spear, for the battle is the Lord’s, and the Lord will deliver you into our hands.

1 Samuel 17 : 48 (LXXEN)

And the Philistine arose and went to meet David.

1 Samuel 17 : 49 (LXXEN)

And David stretched out his hand to his scrip, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone penetrated through the helmet into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 17 : 50 (LXXEN)

Alex. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and smote the Philistine and slew him, and there was no sword in the hand of David.

1 Samuel 17 : 51 (LXXEN)

And David ran, and stood upon him, and took his sword, and slew him, and cut off his head: and the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, and they fled.

1 Samuel 17 : 52 (LXXEN)

And the men of Israel and Juda

Gr. arise

arose, and shouted and pursued them as far as the entrance to

Alex. Gai

Geth, and as far as the gate of Ascalon: and the slain men of the Philistines fell in the way of the

Heb. Myrev Shaaraim

gates, both to Geth, and to Accaron.

1 Samuel 17 : 53 (LXXEN)

And the men of Israel returned

Gr. declining from after

from pursuing after the Philistines, and they

Gr. trampled on

destroyed their camp.

1 Samuel 17 : 54 (LXXEN)

And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

1 Samuel 17 : 55 (LXXEN)

Alex. And when Saul saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abener the captain of the host, Whose son is this youth? and Abener said, As thy soul lives, O king, I know not.

1 Samuel 17 : 56 (LXXEN)

And the king said, Do thou ask whose son this youth is.

1 Samuel 17 : 57 (LXXEN)

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abener took him and brought him in before Saul, and the head of the Philistine was in his hand.

1 Samuel 17 : 58 (LXXEN)

And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, young man? and David said, The son of thy servant Jessae the Bethleemite.