Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
In those days they would take their time in getting started into a real battle. They'd come and they'd yell and they'd have their shouts, and they'd try to psyche each other out. The children of Israel had been pretty well psyched out by this fellow Goliath, who came out every day for forty days.