Today is the 15th day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's great to be here with

you today, middle of the week, middle of the month, and the journey is ongoing.

We have been working our way through the Book of First Samuel. We met Samuel, we met

Saul, Israel's first king. We've also met this shepherd boy named David. We're

going to find out how David moves from obscurity to international celebrity.

In today's reading First Samuel chapter 17 verse 1 through 18 verse 4

now the Philistines gathered their troops for battle. They gathered at Soko, which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Soko and a

Zika at Ffstamim.

Saul and the men of Israel also gathered together and camped in the Valley of

Eilah.

They lined up in battle formation opposite the Philistines. The Philistines took up a position in front of the mountain

on one side of the valley and the Israelites stationed themselves in the front of the mountain

on the other side of the valley.

A challenger who represented the Philistines came out from the camp of the Philistines.

He was named Goliath of Gath.

He was nine feet 6 inches tall. He had a bronze helmet on his head and he wore

scaled body armor which was made of more than 100 pounds of bronze.

He had bronze grieves on his shins and a bronze spear slung between his shoulders.

The shaft of his spear was like a weavers beam and his spearhead was made of 15 pounds of iron.

His shield-bearer went out ahead of him.

He would stand up and shout to the armies of Israel, why have you come out

to line up in battle formation? I am a Philistine and you are servants of Saul aren't you?

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