2And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.
3The Philistines were stationed on the mountain on one side and Israel on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
4And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
5And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.
6His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.
7The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.
8He took up his position and in a loud voice said to the armies of Israel, Why have you come out to make war? Am I not a Philistine and you servants of Saul? Send out a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.
