 And every day for 40 days, Goliath had walked down from the Philistine camp down into the valley. And he had made a challenge to the Israelite army camped on the opposite hill. He challenged them to send out a man to fight him one-on-one. Instead of a bloody battle that would take the lives of a lot of men on both sides, Goliath would fight with one man of Israel. And whatever happened between the two of them would decide who had won the battle.