we are going into the word of god grab your bibles wherever you got to get it from get up out of the way get your bible first samuel chapter number 17 verse 17 through 29 there we will contemplate the scriptures that the lord has given us today it is our custom to stand for the reading of god’s word we respect his word we esteem it above our necessary food we honor it even above our leaders our preachers our pastors our presidents we stand for them we’re going to stand for god again first samuel chapter number 17
verse number 17 when you have it say amen and jesse said unto david his son take down for thy brethren and ephah of this parched corn and these ten loaves and run to the camp to thy brethren and carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand and look how thy brethren fare and take their pledge now saul and they and all the men of israel were in the valley of ela fighting with the philistines and david rose up listen to this and david rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with the 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 for israel and the philistines had put the battle in a ray army against army and david left his carriage in the hands of the keeper of the carriage and ran into the army and came and saluted his brethren and as he talked with him behold there came up the champion the philistine of goth goliath by name out of the armies of the philistines that speak according to the same words and david heard and david heard them
and all the men over israel when they saw the man fled from him and were they were so afraid and the man of israel said have ye seen this man that has 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 and david spoke 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
