1 Samuel 17 David is ready to fight against the giant

 1 Samuel 17

David is ready to fight against the giant

32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him: Your servant will go and fight against this Philistine.

33 But Saul said to David, You cannot go against this Philistine to fight with him: for you are still a young man, and he has been a man of war since his youth.

34 Then David said to Saul, Your servant was feeding his father's sheep; and a lion and a bear came, and took a sheep from the flock;

35 And I went after him, and struck him, and rescued him from his mouth: and when he arose against me, I took his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

36 So your servant struck the lion like the bear: so will this uncircumcised Philistine be as one of them; because he defied the armies of the living God.

37 And David said, The Lord saved me from the hand of the lion and the hand of the bear; he will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. Then Saul said to David, Go away, and the Lord is with you.

38 And Saul put David on his robes, and put a bronze helmet on his head: and put on a breastplate.

39 And David girded the sword on his garments, and began to walk; but he had never experienced it: so David said to Saul, I cannot walk with this, for I have never experienced it. And David took all that away from him.

40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five pebbles from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's saddlebag, which he had, namely, in the beating, and took hold of his sling: and he went on reaching the Philistine.

41 The Philistine also came and came to David; and the one who carried the shield went ahead of him.

42 And when he looked at the Philistine and saw David, he despised him, for he was a young man, red-haired, and kind-looking.

43 And he said, therefore, the Philistine to David, Am I a dog for you to come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David for his gods.

44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.

45 But David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you, and take your head off, and I will give the bodies of the Philistines' camp today to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth: and all the earth will know that there is God in Israel:

47 And all this congregation will know that the Lord saves, not with sword or spear; for war is from the Lord, and he will deliver you into our hand.