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| | David and Goliath (Life in the Holy Land) |
 | | Gath, famous for its giants, had given to the Philistines a champion called Goliath, ten feet in height, clad in a coat of mail, with a helmet of brass, and the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and the spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. |
 | | David recounted his adventures with a lion and a bear, in each of which combats he was victorious, and Saul admitted his claim to act as champion, and bid him go against the Philistine. |
 | | It is clear from this that the people as a body still thoroughly believed in their God, and trusted to David as His instrument:— “And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, and slew him. |
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