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left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not
your pride and the insolence of your heart, for tested them.” So David took them off.
you have come down to see the battle.” 40 Then he took his staff in his hand; and he
29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is chose for himself five smooth stones from the
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there not a cause?” Then he turned from him brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a
toward another and said the same thing; and pouch which he had, and his sling was in his
these people answered him as the first ones did. hand. And he drew near to the Philistine. So
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31 Now when the words which David spoke the Philistine came, and began drawing near
were heard, they reported them to Saul; and to David, and the man who bore the shield
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he sent for him. Then David said to Saul, “Let went before him. And when the Philistine
no man’s heart fail because of him; your ser- looked about and saw David, he disdained
vant will go and fight with this Philistine.” him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-
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looking. So the Philistine said to David, “Am I
a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And
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the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And
the Philistine said to David, “Come to me,
17:32 Let no man’s heart fail. Joshua and
Caleb exhorted Israel in the same fashion and I will give your flesh to the birds of the
regarding the giant Anakim 400 years prior air and the beasts of the field!”
45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You
(Num.13:30;14:8,9).The heathens’hearts fail at
the name of the Lord God of Israel (Josh.2:11). come to me with a sword, with a spear, and
with a javelin. But I come to you in the name
of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
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33 And Saul said to David, “You are not able Israel, whom you have defied. This day the
to go against this Philistine to fight with him; LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will
for you are a youth, and he a man of war from strike you and take your head from you. And
his youth.” this day I will give the carcasses of the camp
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the
to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may
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a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I know that there is a God in Israel. Then all
went out after it and struck it, and delivered this assembly shall know that the LORD does not
the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose save with sword and spear; for the battle is the
against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck LORD’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion 48 So it was, when the Philistine arose and
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and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine came and drew near to meet David, that David
will be like one of them, seeing he has defied hurried and ran toward the army to meet the
the armies of the living God.” Moreover Philistine. Then David put his hand in his bag
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David said, “The LORD, who delivered me and took out a stone; and he slung it and
from the paw of the lion and from the paw of struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that
the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on
this Philistine.” his face to the earth. So David prevailed over
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And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and
be with you!” struck the Philistine and killed him. But there
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38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, and was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore
he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also David ran and stood over the Philistine, took
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clothed him with a coat of mail. David fas- his sword and drew it out of its sheath and
tened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, killed him, and cut off his head with it.
for he had not tested them. And David said to And when the Philistines saw that their
champion was dead, they fled. Now the men
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of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and
pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance
of the valley and to the gates of Ekron. And
17:37 The LORD…He will deliver me. Just as the wounded of the Philistines fell along the
Jonathan believed earlier (14:6). David had a road to Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and
wholehearted faith in the God of Israel. the Ekron. Then the children of Israel returned
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LORD be with you. One of the first explicit from chasing the Philistines, and they plun-
indications in the text that Saul knew that the dered their tents. And David took the head of
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Lord was with David (see 15:28). the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but
he put his armor in his tent.
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