Shmuel | Samuel

The Philistines assembled their camps for war, and assembled themselves at Socoh that is to Judah; they encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.
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A champion went forth from the Philistine camps, whose name was Goliath of Gath; his height six cubits and one span.
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He stood and called out to the battalions of Israel and said to them, “Why are you going forth to wage war? Am I not the Philistine, while you are the servants of Saul? Chose yourselves a man and let him come down to me!
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David was the son of a certain Ephrathite man from Bethlehem [in] Judah; his name was Jesse and he had eight sons. …
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But David was the youngest; just the three oldest followed Saul.
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David would travel back and forth from Saul’s presence to tend his father’s flocks in Bethlehem.
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The men of Israel were saying, “Have you seen this man who goes forth? He goes forth to disgrace Israel! The king will enrich whoever kills him with great wealth and give his daughter to him [in marriage], and he will free his father’s family [from royal service] in Israel.”
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David spoke to the men standing with him, saying, “What will be done for the man who slays this Philistine and removes disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he disgraces the battalions of the Living God?
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The words David was saying became heard; people related [them] to Saul, and he summoned [David].
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David said to Saul, “Let no man lose heart because of him. Your servant will go forth and fight this Philistine!”
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But Saul said to David, “You cannot go forth to this Philistine to fight with him, for you are a lad, while he is a warrior from his youth.”
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Your servant has slain even lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has disgraced the battalions of the Living God!”
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Then David said, “Hashem Who rescued me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, He will rescue me from this Philistine!” …
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Saul dressed David with his own battle garments; he put a copper helmet on his head and dressed him in armor.
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David then girded his sword over his battle garments. Be he was unwilling to go forth [that way], for he was not accustomed [to it], so David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I am not accustomed [to them],” and David removed them from on himself.
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He took his staff in his hand and picked out five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s bag and in the knapsack, and his slingshot was in his hand. Then he approached the Philistine.
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The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog that you come after me with sticks?” and the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin — but I come to you with the Name of Hashem, Master of Legions, the God of the battalions of Israel that you have ridiculed.
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On this day Hashem will deliver you into my hand. … Then the whole earth will know that there is a God in Israel,
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and all this assembly will know that not through sword and spear does Hashem grant salvation; for unto Hashem is the battle, and He shall deliver you into our hands!”
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David stretched his hand into the sack. He took a stone from there and slung it, and struck the Philistine in the forehead. The stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell upon his face, upon the ground.
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Thus David overpowered the Philistine with the slingshot and stone, he smote the Philistine and killed him; there was no sword in David’s hand.
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David ran and stood by the Philistine; he took [Goliath’s] sword and drew it from its sheath, having already killed him, and he cut off his head with it. The Philistines saw that their hero was dead, and they ran away.
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Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “The son of your servant Jesse, the Bethlehemite.”
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Daily Holy Bible Reading

1 And the Philistines assembled their camps to war; and they assembled at Sochoh which belonged to Judah, and they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel assembled, and they encamped in the Valley of the Terebinth, and they set the battle in array against the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines were standing on the mountain from here, and Israel was standing on the mountain from here, and the valley was between them.
4 And the champion emerged from the Philistines’ camp, named Goliath, from Gath; his height was six cubits and a span.
5 And a helmet of copper was on his head, and he was wearing a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of copper.
6 And greaves of copper were on his legs, and a copper javelin was between his shoulders.
7 And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the spear’s head was six hundred shekels of iron, and the shield-bearer went before him.
8 And he stood and called to the array of Israel, and he said to them, “Why should you come out to wage war? Am I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.
9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, we shall be slaves to you, and if I overcome him, and kill him, you shall be slaves to us and serve us.”
10 And the Philistine said, “I taunt the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, and let us fight together.”
11 And Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, and they were panic stricken and very much afraid.
12 And David was the son of this Ephrathite man from Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was old in Saul’s time, coming among men.
13 And Jesse’s three eldest sons who had followed Saul, went to war; and the names of his three sons who went to war, were: Eliab, the firstborn, and the second to him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.
14 And David was the youngest, and the three eldest followed Saul.
15 Now David went to and fro from Saul, to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17 And Jesse said to David his son, “Take now to your brothers, an ephah of this parched corn and ten loaves of this bread, and rush them to the camp, to your brothers.
18 And you shall bring these ten cheeses to the captain of the thousand, and you shall see how your brothers are faring, and you shall take the tidings of their welfare.”
19 And Saul and they, and all the men of Israel in the Valley of the Terebinth, were at war with the Philistines.
20 And David arose early in the morning, and he left the sheep with a keeper; and he carried off and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the barricade, and the army which was going out to the battle array, shouted in the battle.
21 And the Israelites and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
22 And David left the baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and he ran to the battle array, and he came and greeted his brothers.
23 And while he was speaking with them, behold, the champion, named Goliath the Philistine, from Gath, was coming up from the ranks of the Philistines, and he spoke the same words (as before), and David heard.
24 And all the men of Israel, upon seeing the man, fled from before him, and were exceedingly frightened.
25 And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up, for he is coming up to taunt Israel? And it will be, that the man who will kill him, the King will enrich him with great riches, and he will give him his daughter, and he will make his father’s house free in Israel.”
26 And David said to the men who were standing before him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who slays that Philistine, and takes away reproach from Israel, for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the ranks of the living God?”
27 And the people said to him, “So shall be done to the man who slays him.”
28 And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard when he spoke to the men, and Eliab’s wrath was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the desert? I know your impetuousness, and the evil of your heart, for you have come down in order to see the war.”
29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is it not but a word?”
30 And he turned around from him, toward another. And he spoke according to the same manner, the people answered according to the former manner.
31 And the words which David had spoken, were heard. And they related (them) before Saul, and he took him.
32 And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your bondsman will go, and battle with the Philistine.”
33 And Saul said to David, “You are unable to go to this Philistine to battle with him, for you are a lad, and he is a warrior since his youth.”
34 And David said to Saul, “Your bondsman was a shepherd of sheep for his father, and there came a lion and also a bear, and carried off a lamb from the flock.
35 And I went out after him and smote him, and saved it from his mouth. And he arose upon me, and I took hold of his jaw, and I smote him and slew him.
36 Both the lion and the bear has your bondsman slain, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he taunted the armies of the living God.”
37 And David said, “The Lord Who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will save me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may the Lord be with you.”
38 And Saul dressed David with his garments, and he placed a copper helmet on his head, and he dressed him with a coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword over his garments, and he did not want to go (in them), for he was not accustomed, and David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I am not accustomed.” And David took them off.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and he chose for himself five smooth pebbles from the brook, and he placed them in the shepherds’ bag which he had, and in the sack, and his slingshot was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine was continuously drawing nearer to David, and the man who bore the shield was before him.
42 And the Philistine looked and saw David, and he despised him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with an attractive appearance.
43 And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his god.
44 And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I shall give your flesh to the fowl of the air, and to the cattle of the field.”
45 And David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear and javelin, and I come to you with the Name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel which you have taunted.
46 This day, the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I shall slay you, and take off your head, and I shall give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines this day, to the fowl of the air and to the beasts of the earth, and all the earth shall know that Israel has a God.
47 And all this assembly shall know that not with sword and javelin does the Lord save, for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will deliver you into our hand.”
48 And it was, when the Philistine arose and drew closer to David, that David hastened and ran to the battle array, toward the Philistine.
49 And David stretched his hand into the bag, and took a stone therefrom, and slung it, and he hit the Philistine in his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.
50 And David overpowered the Philistine with the slingshot and with the stone, and he smote the Philistine and slew him: and no sword was in David’s hand.
51 And David ran and stood up to the Philistine, and he took his sword and drew it from its sheath, and slew him, and with it, severed his head. And the Philistines saw that their hero had died, and they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines until you come to the valley, and until the Gates of Ekron; and the slain of the Philistines fell on the road of Shaaraim, and up to Gath and up to Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned from pursuing the Philistines, and plundered their camps.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem, and his weapons, he put in his tent.
55 And when Saul saw David going out toward the Philistine, he said to Abner, the general of his army, “Whose son is this youth, Abner?” And Abner said, “By your life, O King, I know not.”
56 And the king said, “You ask whose son this youth is.”
57 And as David returned from slaying the Philistine, Abner called him, and brought him before Saul, and the Philistine’s head was in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David said, “The son of your bondsman, Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

Exposé | Moral

Faith And Action – The Right Approach

In this chapter you will learn how David defeats Goliath not for his fortune and fame. But for G-d’s glory!

Often people claim, “To G-d be the glory.”
But it is all for theirs; nothing of and for G-d.

*Who are you fooling?

Read or Listen to this chapter slowly but surely.