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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="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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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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