He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 17:8 in context
1 Samuel 17:5–11
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He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
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He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.
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The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
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He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
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If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.”
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The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
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When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
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