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1 Samuel 17:9

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If he is 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.”

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1 Samuel 17:9 in other translations

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 shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

1 Samuel 17:9 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 17:9 in context

  1. 7The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
  2. 8He 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.
  3. 9If he is 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.”
  4. 10The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
  5. 11When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.