1 Samuel 17:15-17

Living Bible

^14-15 David was the youngest son and was on Saul’s staff on a part-time basis. He went back and forth to Bethlehem to help his father with the sheep. ¹⁶ For forty days, twice a day, morning and evening the Philistine giant strutted before the armies of Israel.

¹⁷ One day Jesse said to David, “Take this bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers.