If he be able to fight with me, and [a]kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I overcome him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

10 Also the Philistine said, I defy the host of Israel this day: give me a man, that we may fight [b]together.

11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were discouraged, and greatly afraid.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:9 Hebrew, smite me.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:10 Or, hand to hand.

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