1 Samuel 17:8-11

David and Goliath

⁸ He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and _e are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. ⁹ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants _f and serve us." ¹⁰ And the Philistine said, _g "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together." ¹¹ When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

1. Cross References
   1 Samuel 8:17
   He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Samuel 11:1
   Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Samuel 17:25 - 26
   And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
   1 Samuel 17:36
   Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.
   1 Samuel 17:45
   Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
   2 Samuel 21:21
   And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down.