17:8-11
We now get a rather strange phase of the “battle”. Each day Goliath stands there boasting of how strong he is and daring the Israelites to send someone to fight him. The winner of that fight will determine who becomes the subject of whom. Goliath was confident of his invincibility. The Israelites, on the other hand, were cowed in fear, they were “dismayed and terrified”.
17:12-15
David is introduced here as the eighth son of Jesse, David came from Bethlehem. OF course, we have already met David when Samuel anointed him as king. Jesse’s three oldest sons were enlisted in Saul’s rather useless army. David, who was in the service of Saul as his musician, went back and forth between Saul and his father’s sheep. It might be said that David was the only one doing anything useful!
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