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Reading: I Samuel 17:42-50 (Amplified)
And when the
Philistine looked around and saw David, he scorned and despised him, for he was
but an adolescent, with a healthy reddish color and a fair face. And the
Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you should come to me with sticks?"
And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David,
"Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts
of the field."
Then
said David to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a
javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the
ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into
my hand, and I will smite you and cut off your head.
And I will give the
corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and the
wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in
Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and
spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and the Sovereign will give you into our
hands."
When the
Philistine came forward to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line
to meet the Philistine. David put his hand into his bag and took out a stone
and slung it, and it struck the Philistine, sinking into his forehead, and he
fell on his face to the earth.
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and struck down the Philistine and slew him.
But no sword was in David's hand.
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