n stander-by said that he had seen in the city of
Bethlehem a son of Jesse, who was yet no more than a child in age, but
comely and beautiful, and in other respects one that was deserving of
great regard, who was skillful in playing on the harp, and in singing of
hymns, [and an excellent soldier in war,] he sent to Jesse, and desired
him to take David away from the flocks, and send him to him, for he
had a mind to see him, as having heard an advantageous character of his
comeliness and his valor. So Jesse sent his son, and gave him presents
to carry to Saul. And when he was come, Saul was pleased with him, and
made him his armor-bearer, and had him in very great esteem; for he
charmed his passion, and was the only physician against the trouble he
had from the demons, whensoever it was that it came upon him, and this
by reciting of hymns, and playing upon the harp, and bringing Saul
to his right mind again. However, he sent to Jesse, the father of the
child, and desired him to permit David to stay with him, for that he
was delighted with his sight and company; which stay, that he might not
contradict Saul, he granted.

CHAPTER 9. How The Philistines Made Another Expedition Against The
Hebrews Under The Reign Of Saul; And How They Were Overcome By David's
Slaying Goliath In Single Combat.

1. Now the Philistines gathered themselves together again no very long
time afterward; and having gotten together a great army, they made war
against the Israelites; and having seized a place between Shochoh and
Azekah, they there pitched their camp. Saul also drew out his army to
oppose them; and by pitching his own camp on a certain hill, he forced
the Philistines to leave their former camp, and to encamp themselves
upon such another hill, over-against that on which Saul's army lay,
so that a valley, which was between the two hills on which they lay,
divided their camps asunder. Now there came down a man out of the camp
of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath, of the city of Gath, a man
of vast bulk, for he was of four cubits and a span in tallness, and had
about him weapons suitable to the largeness of his body, for he had a
breastplate on that weighed five thousand shekels: he had also a helmet
and greaves of brass, as large as you would naturally suppose might
cover the limbs of so vast a body. His spear was also such as was not
carried like a light thing in his right hand, but he carried it as lying
on his shoulders. H