World English Bible
1 Samuel 17:9
“If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you will be our servants, and serve us.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 17
The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.
He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you will be our servants, and serve us.
The Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day! Give me a man, that we may fight together!
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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