1Os filisteus convocaram o seu exército para uma guerra e acamparam entre Socó em Judá e Azeca em Efes-Damim.2Saul combatia-os com um ajuntamento de tropas reunidas no vale de Elá.3Os filisteus e os israelitas encontravam-se frente a frente em duas colinas opostas com o vale entre eles.4Golias, um grande guerreiro originário de Gate, avançou nas fileiras dos filisteus e colocou-se diante das forças militares israelitas. Tratava-se de um verdadeiro gigante; media para cima de 3 metros de altura!5Trazia um capacete de bronze e vestia uma couraça que pesava uns 60 quilos.6Tinha as pernas protegidas com caneleiras também de bronze e a sua lança, do mesmo metal, tinha vários centímetros de espessura,7estando guarnecida com uma ponta de ferro com cerca de 7 quilos. O seu escudeiro ia à frente carregando um grande escudo.8Golias parou então e gritou para os israelitas: “Porque precisam de um exército alinhado para a batalha? Não sou eu um filisteu e vocês servos de Saul? Escolham algum dos vossos para combater comigo. Se o vosso homem conseguir matar-me, seremos vossos escravos, mas se for eu a matá-lo, serão vocês nossos escravos!10Desafio os exércitos de Israel! Mandem vir um homem que combata comigo!”11Ao ouvir isto, Saul e todo o exército israelita ficaram extremamente angustiados e aterrorizados.12Em Belém de Judá havia um homem da família de Efraim chamado Jessé. Tinha oito filhos e um deles era David. Nesta altura Jessé já era bastante idoso.13Os seus três filhos mais velhos, Eliabe, Abinadabe e Samá, tinham seguido o exército de Saul para combaterem os filisteus.14Enquanto os três mais velhos permaneciam com o exército do rei, David, que era o mais novo,15ia ter com Saul e voltava para Belém, a fim de cuidar do rebanho de seu pai.16Durante 40 dias, duas vezes por dia, de manhã e à tarde, o gigante filisteu pavoneava-se perante as forças israelitas.17Um dia, Jessé disse ao seu filho David: “Leva estes 22 litros de grão torrado mais estes dez bolos aos teus irmãos.18Dá também esses queijos ao capitão e vê se estão a passar bem. Toma conta de algum recado que me queiram mandar.”19Saul e as suas forças militares estavam acampados no vale de Elá.20David deixou as ovelhas entregues a outro pastor e partiu de manhã cedo levando o que o pai enviava aos filhos. Chegou à entrada do acampamento, quando o exército israelita se preparava para a batalha com gritos e apelos à luta.21As forças inimigas encontravam-se frente a frente em disposição de combate.22David entregou o seu fardo ao bagageiro e correu para as fileiras à procura dos irmãos.23Enquanto conversava com eles, viu Golias avançar entre os pelotões filisteus e gritar o seu desafio às tropas de Israel. E David ouviu-o.24Assim que o viram, recuaram aterrorizados.25“Viste aquele gigante?”, perguntavam os soldados. “Tem insultado o exército de Israel. O rei ofereceu já uma enorme recompensa a quem o matar: dar-lhe-á uma das suas filhas e toda a sua família ficará isenta de impostos!”26David informou-se, junto de alguns que ali estavam perto, sobre o que fariam àquele que matasse o filisteu e parasse com aqueles insultos a Israel. “Quem é este incircunciso filisteu que ousa desafiar os exércitos do Deus vivo?”, perguntava.27E davam-lhe sempre a mesma resposta.28O irmão mais velho de David, Eliabe, quando ouviu David falar desta maneira, ficou muito zangado: “Afinal o que estás tu aqui a fazer? A quem deixaste aquelas poucas ovelhas lá no deserto? Sei bem como és atrevido e gabarola! Queres é ver a peleja!”29“Que foi que eu fiz agora? Fiz apenas uma pergunta!”30E afastou-se para continuar a falar com outros, dizendo-lhe toda a gente a mesma coisa.31As pessoas começaram a reparar nele e no que dizia e foram contar a Saul. Este mandou chamá-lo.32“Que ninguém se angustie por causa daquele gigante”, disse David. “Eu me encarregarei desse filisteu!”33“Como é que um rapaz como tu poderia fazer frente a um homem daqueles que é soldado desde a sua mocidade?”34David insistiu: “Quando estou a tomar conta das ovelhas do meu pai, se aparece um leão ou um urso para roubar um cordeiro do rebanho,35corro atrás dele e tiro-lhe o cordeiro da boca. Se ele se volta contra mim, agarro-o pelas mandíbulas e despedaço-o até morrer.36Fiz isto tanto com ursos como com leões; certamente que poderei fazer o mesmo em relação a esse incircunciso filisteu que teve a ousadia de desafiar os exércitos do Deus vivo!37O SENHOR, que me salvou dos dentes do leão e do urso, salvar-me-á também deste filisteu!” Saul, por fim, consentiu: “Está bem, vai lá e que o SENHOR seja contigo!”38Saul deu-lhe a sua própria armadura; uma couraça de bronze e uma cota de malha.39David colocou aquilo tudo sobre si, cingiu a espada e deu dois ou três passos para ver como se sentia, porque era a primeira vez que usava um equipamento de combate. “Eu nem sequer me posso mexer! Nunca andei com coisas destas!” E tirou tudo.40Foi depois buscar à torrente, que por ali passava, cinco pequenos seixos e colocou-os no seu alforge; pegou no cajado e na funda e dirigiu-se na direção de Golias.41Este veio também ao seu encontro, com o homem que lhe levava o escudo à sua frente,42olhando com desprezo aquele rapaz de rosto corado e de aspeto gentil.43“Ouve lá, sou algum cão”, rugiu para David, “para vires contra mim com um pau?” E amaldiçoou David pelos nomes dos seus deuses.44“Vem cá para que dê a tua carne a comer às aves e aos animais selvagens”, gritou Golias.45David, por sua vez, gritou-lhe como resposta: “Tu vens contra mim armado de lança e escudo, mas eu lutarei contigo em nome do SENHOR dos exércitos, o Deus das hostes de Israel, o verdadeiro Deus, a quem tens afrontado.46Hoje o SENHOR te entregará na minha mão; hei de matar-te e cortar-te a cabeça e depois darei os corpos mortos dos teus homens aos pássaros e às feras; toda a gente ficará a saber que há um Deus em Israel!47E todos os que aqui estão hão de ver que o SENHOR não depende de armas de guerra para dar cumprimento aos seus planos de salvação; ele atua sem estar sujeito a meios humanos. Esta questão é só dele e ele vos entregará na nossa mão.”48Golias aproximou-se e David correu ao seu encontro.49Tirando do alforge uma das pequenas pedras, pô-la na funda e feriu o filisteu na cabeça. O seixo cravou-se mesmo na fronte, de tal forma que o homem caiu com o rosto no chão.50David conseguiu vencer o gigante filisteu com uma simples funda e uma pedra.51Como não tinha espada, correu para Golias, tirou a dele da bainha e matou-o cortando-lhe a cabeça. Quando os filisteus viram aquilo, e que o seu campeão estava morto, desataram a fugir.52Os israelitas deram um grande grito de triunfo e foram atrás deles, perseguindo-os até Gate e até às portas de Ecrom. Os corpos dos mortos e dos feridos espalhavam-se por todo o caminho de Saaraim.53As tropas israelitas regressaram e despojaram o acampamento abandonado pelos filisteus.54Mais tarde, David levou a cabeça de Golias para Jerusalém, mas guardou as armas de Golias na sua própria tenda.55Saul, quando viu David dirigir-se na direção de Golias, perguntou a Abner, o general do seu exército: “Abner, a que família pertence este rapaz?” “Realmente não sei!”56“Então procura informar-te”, disse-lhe o rei.57Depois de David ter matado Golias, Abner trouxe-o junto de Saul com a cabeça do gigante ainda nas mãos.58“Fala-me lá do teu pai, meu rapaz”, pediu-lhe Saul. David respondeu: “Chama-se Jessé. Vivemos em Belém.”
English Standard Version
David and Goliath
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.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.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* cubits* and a span.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* of bronze.6And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.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.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.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.”10And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.”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.*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.14David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,15but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.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* 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.”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.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.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.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.”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?”27And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”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.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.”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.”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!”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.42And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.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.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.”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.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,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.”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.52And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath* and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.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.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.”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.58And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
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