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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.2">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.4">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 9 feet 9 inches or about 3 meters</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.5">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 125 pounds or about 58 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">; </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.6">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.7">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">His spear shaft was like a weaver&#8217;s rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> His shield bearer went ahead of him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.8">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, &#8220;Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.9">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.10">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the Philistine said, &#8220;This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.11">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On hearing the Philistine&#8217;s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul&#8217;s time he was very old. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.13">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesse&#8217;s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.14">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul, </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.15">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father&#8217;s sheep at Bethlehem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.16">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.17">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now Jesse said to his son David, &#8220;Take this ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.18">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">some token</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">some pledge of spoils</span></span></span><span class="content"> from them. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.19">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.20">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.21">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.22">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.23">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.24">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.25">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now the Israelites had been saying, &#8220;Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.26">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">David asked the men standing near him, &#8220;What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.17.26"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.27">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, &#8220;This is what will be done for the man who kills him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.17.27"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.28">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Eliab, David&#8217;s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, &#8220;Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.17.28"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.29">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now what have I done?&#8221; said David. &#8220;Can&#8217;t I even speak?&#8221; </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.30">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.31">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.17.31"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.32">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">David said to Saul, &#8220;Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.17.32"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.33">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Saul replied, &#8220;You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.17.33"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.34">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But David said to Saul, &#8220;Your servant has been keeping his father&#8217;s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.35">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.17.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.36">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.17.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.37">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.17.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.17.37"><span class="content">Saul said to David, &#8220;Go, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.17.37"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.38">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.17.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.39">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.17.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.17.39"><span class="content">&#8220;I cannot go in these,&#8221; he said to Saul, &#8220;because I am not used to them.&#8221; So he took them off. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.40">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.17.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd&#8217;s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.17.40"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.41">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.17.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.42">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1SA.17.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.43">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1SA.17.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He said to David, &#8220;Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?&#8221; And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.44">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1SA.17.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come here,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I&#8217;ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1SA.17.44"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.45">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="1SA.17.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">David said to the Philistine, &#8220;You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.46">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="1SA.17.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">This day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver you into my hands, and I&#8217;ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.47">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="1SA.17.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saves; for the battle is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s, and he will give all of you into our hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="1SA.17.47"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.48">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="1SA.17.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.49">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="1SA.17.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="1SA.17.49"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1SA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.50">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="1SA.17.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="1SA.17.50"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="1SA.17.51">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="1SA.17.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine&#8217;s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="1SA.17.51"><span class="content">When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. </span></span></div>
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