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45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, (A)but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have [a]reproached. 46 This day Yahweh will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the (B)dead bodies of the camp of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, (C)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that (D)Yahweh does not save by sword or by spear; (E)for the battle is Yahweh’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 17:45 Or defied