1 Samuel 17:10
Good News Translation
Here and now I challenge the Israelite army. I dare you to pick someone to fight me!"

New Revised Standard Version
And the Philistine said, “Today I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man, that we may fight together.”

Contemporary English Version
Here and now I challenge Israel's whole army! Choose someone to fight me!

New American Bible
The Philistine continued: “I defy the ranks of Israel today. Give me a man and let us fight together.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

I defy

1 Samuel 17:25,26,36,45 And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come up, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel. . . .

Numbers 23:7,8 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 21:21 And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the brother of David slew him.

2 Samuel 23:9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three valiant men that were with David when they defied the Philistines, and they were there gathered together to battle.

Nehemiah 2:19 But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?

give me

Job 40:9-12 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him? . . .

Psalm 9:4,5 For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice. . . .

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

Jeremiah 9:23 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

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Context
Goliath's Challenge
9If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants to you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be servants, and shall serve us. 10And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.11And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the Philistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:11
And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the Philistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

1 Samuel 17:26
And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: What shall be given to the man that shall kill this Philistine, and shall take away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:36
For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?

2 Samuel 21:21
And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the brother of David slew him.

1 Samuel 17:9
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