²⁶ For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?^(A)

²⁶ David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace^(A) from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised^(B) Philistine that he should defy^(C) the armies of the living^(D) God?”