1Os filisteus juntaram suas forças para a guerra e se reuniram em Socó, de Judá. E acamparam em Efes-Damim, entre Socó e Azeca.2Saul e os israelitas reuniram-se e acamparam no vale de Elá, posicionando-se em linha de batalha para enfrentar os filisteus.3Os filisteus ocuparam uma colina e os israelitas outra, estando o vale entre eles.4Um guerreiro chamado Golias, que era de Gate, veio do acampamento filisteu. Tinha dois metros e noventa centímetros[1] de altura.5Ele usava um capacete de bronze e vestia uma couraça de escamas de bronze que pesava sessenta quilos[2];6nas pernas usava caneleiras de bronze e tinha um dardo de bronze pendurado nas costas.7A haste de sua lança era parecida com uma lançadeira de tecelão, e sua ponta de ferro pesava sete quilos e duzentos gramas. Seu escudeiro ia à frente dele.8Golias parou e gritou às tropas de Israel: “Por que vocês estão se posicionando para a batalha? Não sou eu um filisteu, e vocês os servos de Saul? Escolham um homem para lutar comigo.9Se ele puder lutar e vencer-me, nós seremos seus escravos; todavia, se eu o vencer e o puser fora de combate, vocês serão nossos escravos e nos servirão”.10E acrescentou: “Eu desafio hoje as tropas de Israel! Mandem-me um homem para lutar sozinho comigo”.11Ao ouvirem as palavras do filisteu, Saul e todos os israelitas ficaram atônitos e apavorados.12Davi era filho de Jessé, o efrateu de Belém de Judá. Jessé tinha oito filhos e já era idoso na época de Saul.13Os três filhos mais velhos de Jessé tinham ido para a guerra com Saul: Eliabe, o mais velho; Abinadabe, o segundo; e Samá, o terceiro.14Davi era o caçula. Os três mais velhos seguiram Saul,15mas Davi ia ao acampamento de Saul e voltava para apascentar as ovelhas de seu pai, em Belém.16Durante quarenta dias o filisteu aproximou-se, de manhã e de tarde, e tomou posição.17Nessa ocasião Jessé disse a seu filho Davi: “Pegue uma arroba[3] de grãos tostados e dez pães e leve-os depressa a seus irmãos no acampamento.18Leve também estes dez queijos ao comandante da unidade[4] deles. Veja como estão seus irmãos e traga-me alguma garantia[5] de que estão bem.19Eles estão com Saul e com todos os homens de Israel no vale de Elá, lutando contra os filisteus”.20Levantando-se de madrugada, Davi deixou o rebanho com outro pastor, pegou a carga e partiu, conforme Jessé lhe havia ordenado. Chegou ao acampamento na hora em que, com o grito de batalha, o exército estava saindo para suas posições de combate.21Israel e os filisteus estavam se posicionando em linha de batalha, frente a frente.22Davi deixou o que havia trazido com o responsável pelos suprimentos e correu para a linha de batalha para saber como estavam seus irmãos.23Enquanto conversava com eles, Golias, o guerreiro filisteu de Gate, avançou e lançou seu desafio habitual; e Davi o ouviu.24Quando os israelitas viram o homem, todos fugiram cheios de medo.25Os israelitas diziam entre si: “Vocês viram aquele homem? Ele veio desafiar Israel. O rei dará grandes riquezas a quem o vencer. Também lhe dará sua filha em casamento e isentará de impostos em Israel a família de seu pai”.26Davi perguntou aos soldados que estavam ao seu lado: “O que receberá o homem que matar esse filisteu e salvar a honra de Israel? Quem é esse filisteu incircunciso para desafiar os exércitos do Deus vivo?”27Repetiram a Davi o que haviam comentado e lhe disseram: “É isso que receberá o homem que matá-lo”.28Quando Eliabe, o irmão mais velho, ouviu Davi falando com os soldados, ficou muito irritado com ele e perguntou: “Por que você veio até aqui? Com quem deixou aquelas poucas ovelhas no deserto? Sei que você é presunçoso e que o seu coração é mau; você veio só para ver a batalha”.29E disse Davi: “O que fiz agora? Será que não posso nem mesmo conversar?”30Ele então se virou para outro e perguntou a mesma coisa, e os homens responderam-lhe como antes.31As palavras de Davi chegaram aos ouvidos de Saul, que o mandou chamar.32Davi disse a Saul: “Ninguém deve ficar com o coração abatido por causa desse filisteu; teu servo irá e lutará com ele”.33Respondeu Saul: “Você não tem condições de lutar contra esse filisteu; você é apenas um rapaz, e ele é um guerreiro desde a mocidade”.34Davi, entretanto, disse a Saul: “Teu servo toma conta das ovelhas de seu pai. Quando aparece um leão ou um urso e leva uma ovelha do rebanho,35eu vou atrás dele, dou-lhe golpes e livro a ovelha de sua boca. Quando se vira contra mim, eu o pego pela juba e lhe dou golpes até matá-lo.36Teu servo pôde matar um leão e um urso; esse filisteu incircunciso será como um deles, pois desafiou os exércitos do Deus vivo.37O SENHOR que me livrou das garras do leão e das garras do urso me livrará das mãos desse filisteu”. Diante disso Saul disse a Davi: “Vá, e que o SENHOR esteja com você”.38Saul vestiu Davi com sua própria túnica, colocou-lhe uma armadura e lhe pôs um capacete de bronze na cabeça.39Davi prendeu sua espada sobre a túnica e tentou andar, pois não estava acostumado com aquilo. E disse a Saul: “Não consigo andar com isto, pois não estou acostumado”. Então tirou tudo aquilo40e em seguida pegou seu cajado, escolheu no riacho cinco pedras lisas, colocou-as na bolsa, isto é, no seu alforje de pastor, e, com sua atiradeira na mão, aproximou-se do filisteu.41Enquanto isso, o filisteu, com seu escudeiro à frente, vinha se aproximando de Davi.42Olhou para Davi com desprezo, viu que era só um rapaz, ruivo[6] e de boa aparência, e fez pouco caso dele.43Disse ele a Davi: “Por acaso sou um cão, para que você venha contra mim com pedaços de pau?” E o filisteu amaldiçoou Davi, invocando seus deuses,44e disse: “Venha aqui, e darei sua carne às aves do céu e aos animais do campo!”45Davi, porém, disse ao filisteu: “Você vem contra mim com espada, com lança e com dardos, mas eu vou contra você em nome do SENHOR dos Exércitos, o Deus dos exércitos de Israel, a quem você desafiou.46Hoje mesmo o SENHOR o entregará nas minhas mãos, eu o matarei e cortarei a sua cabeça. Hoje mesmo darei os cadáveres do exército filisteu às aves do céu e aos animais selvagens, e toda a terra saberá que há Deus em Israel.47Todos os que estão aqui saberão que não é por espada ou por lança que o SENHOR concede vitória; pois a batalha é do SENHOR, e ele entregará todos vocês em nossas mãos”.48Quando o filisteu começou a vir na direção de Davi, este correu para a linha de batalha para enfrentá-lo.49Tirando uma pedra de seu alforje, arremessou-a com a atiradeira e atingiu o filisteu na testa, de tal modo que ela ficou encravada, e ele caiu, dando com o rosto no chão.50Assim Davi venceu o filisteu com uma atiradeira e uma pedra; sem espada na mão, derrubou o filisteu e o matou.51Davi correu, pôs os pés sobre ele, e, desembainhando a espada do filisteu, acabou de matá-lo, cortando-lhe a cabeça com ela. Quando os filisteus viram que o seu guerreiro estava morto, recuaram e fugiram.52Então os homens de Israel e de Judá deram o grito de guerra e perseguiram os filisteus até a entrada de Gate[7] e até as portas de Ecrom. Cadáveres de filisteus ficaram espalhados ao longo da estrada de Saaraim até Gate e Ecrom.53Quando os israelitas voltaram da perseguição aos filisteus, levaram tudo o que havia no acampamento deles.54Davi pegou a cabeça do filisteu, levou-a para Jerusalém e guardou as armas do filisteu em sua própria tenda.55Quando Saul viu Davi avançando para enfrentar o filisteu, perguntou a Abner, o comandante do exército: “Abner, quem é o pai daquele rapaz?” Abner respondeu: “Juro por tua vida, ó rei, que eu não sei”.56E o rei ordenou-lhe: “Descubra quem é o pai dele”.57Logo que Davi voltou, depois de ter matado o filisteu, Abner levou-o perante Saul. Davi ainda segurava a cabeça de Golias.58E Saul lhe perguntou: “De quem você é filho, meu jovem?” Respondeu Davi: “Sou filho de teu servo Jessé, de Belém”.
1Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. (Js 10:10; Js 15:35; 1 Sm 13:5; 1 Cr 11:13; Ne 11:30)2And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. (1 Sm 17:19; 1 Sm 21:9)3And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.4And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six[1] cubits[2] and a span. (Js 11:22; Js 13:3; 1 Sm 21:10; 2 Sm 21:19; 1 Cr 20:4)5He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels[3] of bronze.6And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. (1 Sm 17:45)7The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him. (1 Sm 17:41)8He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. (1 Sm 8:17)9If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” (1 Sm 11:1)10And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.” (1 Sm 17:25; 1 Sm 17:36; 1 Sm 17:45; 2 Sm 21:21)11When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.12Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.[4] (Gn 35:19; Rt 4:22; 1 Sm 16:1; 1 Sm 16:10; 1 Sm 16:18; 1 Sm 17:58; 1 Cr 2:13)13The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. (1 Sm 16:6; 1 Sm 16:8; 1 Cr 2:13)14David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, (1 Sm 16:11)15but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. (1 Sm 16:19)16For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.17And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah[5] of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.18Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.” (Gn 37:14; 1 Sm 16:20)19Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.20And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry. (1 Sm 26:5; 1 Sm 26:7)21And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.22And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers. (Is 10:28; At 21:15)23As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him. (1 Sm 17:4; 1 Sm 17:8)24All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.25And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.” (Js 15:16; 1 Sm 17:10; 1 Sm 17:36; 1 Sm 17:45)26And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (Dt 5:26; Js 3:10; Jz 14:3; 1 Sm 11:2; 1 Sm 17:25)27And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.” (1 Sm 17:25)28Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”29And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”30And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before. (1 Sm 17:26)31When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.32And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” (Dt 20:3; 1 Sm 16:18)33And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”34But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,35I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.36Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” (1 Sm 17:10; 1 Sm 17:26)37And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!” (1 Sm 20:13; 1 Cr 22:11; 1 Cr 22:16; 2 Tm 4:17)38Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,39and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.40Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.41And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him. (1 Sm 17:7)42And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. (1 Sm 16:12)43And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. (1 Sm 24:14; 2 Sm 3:8; 2 Sm 9:8; 2 Sm 16:9; 2 Rs 8:13)44The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.” (1 Sm 17:46)45Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. (1 Sm 17:6; 1 Sm 17:36)46This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, (Dt 28:26; Js 4:24; 1 Sm 17:44; 1 Rs 18:36)47and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hand.” (2 Cr 20:15; Sl 44:6; Os 1:7; Zc 4:6)48When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.49And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.50So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.51Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. (1 Sm 21:9; 2 Sm 23:21; Hb 11:34)52And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath[6] and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. (Js 15:11; Js 15:36; 1 Sm 17:4)53And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.54And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. (1 Sm 17:57; 2 Sm 5:6)55As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.” (1 Sm 1:26; 1 Sm 16:21; 2 Sm 2:8)56And the king said, “Inquire whose son the boy is.”57And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. (1 Sm 17:54)58And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.” (1 Sm 17:12)