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congregantes vero Philisthim agmina sua in proeliumconvenerunt in Soccho Iudae et castrametati sunt inter Socchoet Azeca in finibus Dommim

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porro Saul et viri Israhel congregati venerunt in valleTerebinthi et direxerunt aciem ad pugnandum contra Philisthim

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et Philisthim stabant super montem ex hac parte et Israhelstabat super montem ex altera parte vallisque erat inter eos

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et egressus est vir spurius de castris Philisthinorumnomine Goliath de Geth altitudinis sex cubitorum et palmo

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et cassis aerea super caput eius et lorica hamatainduebatur porro pondus loricae eius quinque milia siclorumaeris

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et ocreas aereas habebat in cruribus et clypeus aereustegebat umeros eius

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hastile autem hastae eius erat quasi liciatorium texentiumipsum autem ferrum hastae eius sescentos siclos habebat ferriet armiger eius antecedebat eum

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stansque clamabat adversum falangas Israhel et dicebat eisquare venitis parati ad proelium numquid ego non sumPhilistheus et vos servi Saul eligite ex vobis virum etdescendat ad singulare certamen

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si quiverit pugnare mecum et percusserit me erimus vobisservi si autem ego praevaluero et percussero eum vos servieritis et servietis nobis

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et aiebat Philistheus ego exprobravi agminibus Israhelishodie date mihi virum et ineat mecum singulare certamen

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audiens autem Saul et omnes viri israhelitae sermonesPhilisthei huiuscemodi stupebant et metuebant nimis

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David autem erat filius viri ephrathei de quo supra dictumest de Bethleem Iuda cui erat nomen Isai qui habebat octofilios et erat vir in diebus Saul senex et grandevus interviros

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abierunt autem tres filii eius maiores post Saul inproelium et nomina trium filiorum eius qui perrexerant adbellum Heliab primogenitus et secundus Abinadab tertiusqueSamma

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David autem erat minimus tribus ergo maioribus secutisSaulem

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abiit David et reversus est a Saul ut pasceret gregempatris sui in Bethleem

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procedebat vero Philistheus mane et vespere et stabatquadraginta diebus

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dixit autem Isai ad David filium suum accipe fratribustuis oephi pulentae et decem panes istos et curre in castra adfratres tuos

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et decem formellas casei has deferes ad tribunum etfratres tuos visitabis si recte agant et cum quibus ordinatisint disce

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Saul autem et illi et omnes filii Israhel in valleTerebinthi pugnabant adversum Philisthim

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surrexit itaque David mane et commendavit gregem custodiet onustus abiit sicut praeceperat ei Isai et venit ad locumMagala et ad exercitum qui egressus ad pugnam vociferatus eratin certamine

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direxerat enim aciem Israhel sed et Philisthim ex adversofuerant praeparati

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derelinquens ergo David vasa quae adtulerat sub manucustodis ad sarcinas cucurrit ad locum certaminis etinterrogabat si omnia recte agerentur erga fratres suos

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cumque adhuc ille loqueretur eis apparuit vir ille spuriusascendens Goliath nomine Philistheus de Geth ex castrisPhilisthinorum et loquente eo haec eadem verba audivit David

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omnes autem Israhelitae cum vidissent virum fugerunt afacie eius timentes eum valde

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et dixit unus quispiam de Israhel num vidisti virum huncqui ascendit ad exprobrandum enim Israheli ascendit virum ergoqui percusserit eum ditabit rex divitiis magnis et filiam suamdabit ei et domum patris eius faciet absque tributo in Israhel

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et ait David ad viros qui stabant secum dicens quiddabitur viro qui percusserit Philistheum hunc et tuleritobprobrium de Israhel quis est enim hic Philistheusincircumcisus qui exprobravit acies Dei viventis

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referebat autem ei populus eundem sermonem dicens haecdabuntur viro qui percusserit eum

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quod cum audisset Heliab frater eius maior loquente eo cumaliis iratus est contra David et ait quare venisti et quaredereliquisti pauculas oves illas in deserto ego novi superbiamtuam et nequitiam cordis tui quia ut videres proeliumdescendisti

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et dixit David quid feci numquid non verbum est

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et declinavit paululum ab eo ad alium dixitque eundemsermonem et respondit ei populus verbum sicut et prius

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audita sunt autem verba quae locutus est David etadnuntiata in conspectu Saul

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ad quem cum fuisset adductus locutus est ei non concidatcor cuiusquam in eo ego servus tuus vadam et pugnabo adversusPhilistheum

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et ait Saul ad David non vales resistere Philistheo istinec pugnare adversum eum quia puer es hic autem vir bellator abadulescentia sua

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dixitque David ad Saul pascebat servus tuus patris suigregem et veniebat leo vel ursus tollebatque arietem de mediogregis

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et sequebar eos et percutiebam eruebamque de ore eorum etilli consurgebant adversum me et adprehendebam mentum eorum etsuffocabam interficiebamque eos

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nam et leonem et ursum interfeci ego servus tuus eritigitur et Philistheus hic incircumcisus quasi unus ex eis quiaausus est maledicere exercitum Dei viventis

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et ait David Dominus qui eruit me de manu leonis et demanu ursi ipse liberabit me de manu Philisthei huius dixitautem Saul ad David vade et Dominus tecum sit

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et induit Saul David vestimentis suis et inposuit galeamaeream super caput eius et vestivit eum lorica

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accinctus ergo David gladio eius super veste sua coepittemptare si armatus posset incedere non enim habebatconsuetudinem dixitque David ad Saul non possum sic incederequia nec usum habeo et deposuit ea

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et tulit baculum suum quem semper habebat in manibus etelegit sibi quinque limpidissimos lapides de torrente et misiteos in peram pastoralem quam habebat secum et fundam manu tulitet processit adversum Philistheum

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ibat autem Philistheus incedens et adpropinquans adversumDavid et armiger eius ante eum

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cumque inspexisset Philistheus et vidisset David despexiteum erat enim adulescens rufus et pulcher aspectu

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et dixit Philistheus ad David numquid ego canis sum quodtu venis ad me cum baculo et maledixit Philistheus David indiis suis

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dixitque ad David veni ad me et dabo carnes tuasvolatilibus caeli et bestiis terrae

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dixit autem David ad Philistheum tu venis ad me cum gladioet hasta et clypeo ego autem venio ad te in nomine Dominiexercituum Dei agminum Israhel quibus exprobrasti

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hodie et dabit te Dominus in manu mea et percutiam te etauferam caput tuum a te et dabo cadaver castrorum Philisthimhodie volatilibus caeli et bestiis terrae ut sciat omnis terraquia est Deus in Israhel

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et noverit universa ecclesia haec quia non in gladio necin hasta salvat Dominus ipsius est enim bellum et tradet vos inmanus nostras

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cum ergo surrexisset Philistheus et veniret etadpropinquaret contra David festinavit David et cucurrit adpugnam ex adverso Philisthei

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et misit manum suam in peram tulitque unum lapidem etfunda iecit et percussit Philistheum in fronte et infixus estlapis in fronte eius et cecidit in faciem suam super terram

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praevaluitque David adversus Philistheum in funda et inlapide percussumque Philistheum interfecit cumque gladium nonhaberet in manu David

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cucurrit et stetit super Philistheum et tulit gladium eiuset eduxit de vagina sua et interfecit eum praeciditque caputeius videntes autem Philisthim quod mortuus esset fortissimuseorum fugerunt

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et consurgentes viri Israhel et Iuda vociferati sunt etpersecuti Philistheos usque dum venirent in vallem et usque adportas Accaron cecideruntque vulnerati de Philisthim in viaSarim usque ad Geth et usque Accaron

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et revertentes filii Israhel postquam persecuti fuerantPhilistheos invaserunt castra eorum

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adsumens autem David caput Philisthei adtulit illud inHierusalem arma vero eius posuit in tabernaculo suo

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eo autem tempore quo viderat Saul David egredientem contraPhilistheum ait ad Abner principem militiae de qua stirpedescendit hic adulescens Abner dixitque Abner vivit anima tuarex si novi

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et ait rex interroga tu cuius filius sit iste puer

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cumque regressus esset David percusso Philistheo tulit eumAbner et introduxit coram Saul caput Philisthei habentem inmanu

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et ait ad eum Saul de qua progenie es o adulescensdixitque David filius servi tui Isai Bethleemitae ego sum

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Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

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And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

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And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

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And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

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And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

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And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

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And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

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

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And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

017:011
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

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Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

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And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

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And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

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But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

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And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

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And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp of thy brethren;

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And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

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Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

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And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

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For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

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And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

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And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

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And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

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And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

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And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

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And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

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And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

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And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

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And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

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And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

017:032
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

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And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

017:034
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

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And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

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Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

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David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.

017:038
And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

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And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

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And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

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And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

017:042
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

017:043
And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

017:044
And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

017:045
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

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This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

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And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands.

017:048
And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

017:049
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

017:050
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

017:051
Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

017:052
And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

017:053
And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

017:054
And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.

017:055
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

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And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.

017:057
And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

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And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

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