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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. He had also a lance of six hundred
shekels; and many followed him to carry his armor. Wherefore this Goliath
stood between the two armies, as they were in battle array, and sent out
aloud voice, and said to Saul and the Hebrews, "I will free you from
fighting and from dangers; for what necessity is there that your army should
fall and be afflicted? Give me a man of you that will fight with me, and
he that conquers shall have the reward of the conqueror and determine the
war; for these shall serve those others to whom the conqueror shall belong;
and certainly it is much better, and more prudent, to gain what you desire
by the hazard of one man than of all." When he had said this, he retired
to his own camp; but the next day he came again, and used the same words,
and did not leave off for forty days together, to challenge the enemy in
the same words, till Saul and his army were therewith terrified, while
they put themselves in array as if they would fight, but did not come to
a close battle.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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