June 15 – Strength in Calm Confidence

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, June 15th.

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Strength and calm confidence.
You’ve probably noticed that the

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loudest person in the room isn’t
always the wisest one.

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Sometimes the people making the
most noise, posting the most

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content, or talking the most
aggressively are actually the

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most insecure and the most
confident people.

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The ones who actually have it
together often speak less and

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move with quiet purpose.
Proverbs chapter 17, verses 27

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and 28 capture this beautifully.
Whoever restrains his words has

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knowledge, and he who has a cool
spirit is a man of

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understanding, a cool spirit.
Not cold, not detached, but

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calm, grounded, not rattled by
every wave that comes.

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That kind of calm confidence is
exactly what David walked in

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during one of the most famous
moments in all of history in

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First Samuel chapter 17.
Everyone else saw Goliath and

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panicked.
He was enormous.

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He was terrifying.
He had been issuing his

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challenge for 40 days and nobody
had stepped forward.

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But David didn’t see what
everyone else saw.

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He saw a man who had defied the
living God, and he wasn’t

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afraid.
First Samuel chapter 17, verse

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45 records what David said
before the fight.

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You come to me with a sword and
with a spear and with a javelin.

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But I come to you in the name of
the Lord of hosts, the God of

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the armies of Israel whom you
have defied.

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No boasting about himself, no
theatrics, just this.

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I know who I am.
I know who my God is, and that’s

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enough.
That’s the quiet confidence

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Proverbs is describing.
It doesn’t need to be loud

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because it’s not drawing from
pride.

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It’s drawing from faith.
David wasn’t calm because he was

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fearless in a human sense.
He was calm because he genuinely

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trusted God, and that trust
produced a steadiness that

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everyone around him couldn’t
manufacture with all their

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noise.
What giants are you facing right

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now?
What situation has you

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overwhelmed, tempted to either
panic or overcompensate with

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bravado?
Here’s the truth.

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You don’t have to out shout the
giant.

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You just have to know whose name
you’re carrying.

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That’s enough.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
showing us through David, that

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true strength is rooted in
faith, not volume.

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Help us to develop a cool and
steady spirit, not because we

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have it all together, but
because we trust You.

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When we face giants in our
lives, remind us that we come in

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your name.
That’s the only confidence we

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need.
Teach us to pause before we

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speak and to act with faith
rather than fear.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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meant to be rushed, feared, or
walked alone?

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Proverbs chapter 17, Verses 27

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to 28 World English Bible He who
spares his words has knowledge.

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He who is even tempered is a man
of understanding.

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Even a fool, when he keeps
silent is counted wise.

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When he shuts his lips he is
thought to be discerning.

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First Samuel Chapter 17 World
English Bible Now the

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Philistines gathered together
their armies to battle and they

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were gathered together at Sacco
which belongs to Judah, and

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encamped between Sacco and Azka.
In Ephesdamum.

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Saul and the men of Israel were
gathered together and encamped

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in the valley of Allah and set
the battle in array against the

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Philistines.
The Philistines stood on the

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mountain on the one side and
Israel stood on the mountain on

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the other side and there was a
valley between them.

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A champion out of the camp of
the Philistines named Goliath of

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Gath, whose height was 6 cubits
and a span went out.

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He had a helmet of bronze on his
head and he wore a coat of mail

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and the weight of the coat was
5000 shekels of bronze.

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He had bronze shin armor on his
legs and a bronze javelin

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between his shoulders.
The staff of his spear was like

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a weaver’s beam and his Spears
head weighed 600 shekels of

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iron.
His shield bearer went before

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him.
He stood and cried to the armies

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of Israel and said to them, Why
have you come out to set your

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battle in array?
Am I not a Philistine?

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And you, servants to Saul,
choose a man for yourselves and

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let him come down to me.
If he is able to fight with me

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and kill me, then will we be
your servants.

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But if I prevail against him and
kill him, then you will be our

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servants and serve us.
The Philistine said, I defy the

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armies of Israel today.
Give me a man that we may fight

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together.
When Saul and all Israel heard

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those words of the Philistine,
they were dismayed and greatly

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afraid.
Now David was the son of that

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Ephrathite of Bethlehem, Judah,
whose name was Jesse, and he had

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eight sons.
The man was an elderly old man

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in the days of Saul.
The three oldest sons of Jesse

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had gone after Saul to the
battle, and the names of his

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three sons who went to the
battle were Elyab, the first

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born, and next to him AB an
Adab, and the third Shama.

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David was the youngest, and the
three oldest followed Saul.

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Now David went back and forth
from Saul to feed his father’s

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sheep at Bethlehem.
The Philistine came near morning

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and evening and presented
himself 40 days.

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Jesse said to David his son.
Now take for your brothers an

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ephah of this parched grain and
these 10 loaves, and carry them

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quickly to the camp to your
brothers, and bring these 10

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cheeses to the captain of their
thousand, and see how your

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brothers are doing, and bring
back news.

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Now Saul and they and all the
men of Israel were in the valley

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of Allah fighting with the
Philistines.

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David rose up early in the
morning and left the sheep with

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a keeper and took and went as
Jesse had commanded him.

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He came to the place of the
wagons as the army which was

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going out to the fight shouted
for the battle.

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Israel and the Philistines put
the battle in array, army

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against army.
David left his baggage in the

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hand of the keeper of the
baggage and ran to the army and

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came and greeted his brothers as
he talked with them.

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Behold, the champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by

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name, came up out of the ranks
of the Philistines and said the

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same words, and David heard them
all.

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The men of Israel, when they saw
the man, fled from him and were

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terrified.
The men of Israel said, Have you

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seen this man who has come up?
He has surely come up to defy

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Israel.
The king will give great riches

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to the man who kills him, and
will give him his daughter and

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make his father’s house free in
Israel.

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David spoke to the men who stood
by him, saying, What shall be

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done to the man who kills this
Philistine and takes away the

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reproach from Israel?
For who is this uncircumcised

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Philistine that he should defy
the armies of the living God?

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The people answered him in this
way, saying, So shall it be done

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to the man who kills him.
Aliab, his oldest brother, heard

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when he spoke to the men, and
Aliab’s anger burned against

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David.
And he said, Why have you come

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down?
With whom have you left those

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few sheep in the wilderness?
I know your pride and the

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naughtiness of your heart, for
you have come down that you

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might see the battle.
David said, What have I now

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done?
Is there not a ’cause?

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He turned away from him toward
another, and spoke like that

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again.
And the people answered him

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again the same way.
When the words were heard which

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David spoke, they rehearsed them
before Saul, and he sent for

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him.
David said to Saul, Let no man’s

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heart fail.
Because of him your servant will

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go and fight with this
Philistine.

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Saul said to David, You are not
able to go against this

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Philistine to fight with him,
for you are but a youth and he a

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man of war from his youth.
David said to Saul, Your servant

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was keeping his father’s sheep,
and when a lion or a bear came

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and took a lamb out of the
flock, I went out after him and

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struck him and rescued it out of
his mouth.

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When he arose against me, I
caught him by his beard and

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struck him and killed him.
Your servant struck both the

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lion and the bear.
This uncircumcised Philistine

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shall be as one of them, since
he has defied the armies of the

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living God.
David said Yahweh, who delivered

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me out of the paw of the lion
and out of the paw of the bear,

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he will deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine.

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Saul said to David, go, Yahweh
will be with you.

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Saul dressed David with his
clothing.

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He put a helmet of bronze on his
head and he clad him with a coat

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of mail.
David strapped his sword on his

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clothing and he tried to move,
for he had not tested it.

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David said to Saul, I can’t go
with these for I have not tested

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them.
Then David took them off.

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He took his staff in his hand
and chose for himself 5 smooth

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stones out of the brook and put
them in the pouch of his

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shepherd’s bag which he had.
His sling was in his hand and he

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came near to the Philistine.
The Philistine walked and came

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near to David and the man who
bore the shield went before him.

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When the Philistine looked
around and saw David, he

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disdained him, for he was but a
youth and Ruddy and had a good

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looking face.
The Philistine said to David, Am

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IA dog, that you come to me with
sticks.

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The Philistine cursed David by
his gods.

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The Philistine said to David,
come to me, and I will give your

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flesh to the birds of the sky
and to the animals of the field.

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Then David said to the
Philistine, You come to me with

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a sword, with a spear, and with
a javelin, but I come to you in

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the name of Yahweh of armies,
the God of the armies of Israel,

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whom you have defied today.
Yahweh will deliver you into my

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hand.
I will strike you and take your

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head from off you.
I will give the dead bodies of

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the army of the Philistines
today to the birds of the sky

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and to the wild animals of the
earth, that all the earth may

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know that there is a God in
Israel, and that all this

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assembly may know that Yahweh
doesn’t save with sword and

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spear.
For the battle is Yahweh’s.

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And He will give you into our
hand.

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When the Philistine arose and
walked and came near to meet

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David, David hurried and ran
toward the army to meet the

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Philistine.
David put his hand in his bag,

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took a stone and slung it, and
struck the Philistine in his

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forehead.
The stone sank into his

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forehead, and he fell on his
face to the earth.

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So David prevailed over the
Philistine with a sling and with

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a stone and struck the
Philistine and killed him.

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But there was no sword in the
hand of David.

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Then David ran, stood over the
Philistine, took his sword, drew

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it out of its sheath, killed
him, and cut off his head with

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it.
When the Philistines saw that

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their champion was dead, they
fled.

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The men of Israel and of Judah
arose and shouted and pursued

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the Philistines as far as Guy
and to the gates of Ekron.

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The wounded of the Philistines
fell down by the way to

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Shahraim, even to Gath, and to
Ekron.

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The children of Israel returned
from chasing after the

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Philistines, and they plundered
their camp.

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David took the head of the
Philistine and brought it to

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Jerusalem, but he put his armor
in his tent.

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When Saul saw David go out
against the Philistine, he said

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to Abner, the captain of the
army.

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Abner, Whose son is this youth?
Abner said, As your soul lives,

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O king, I can’t tell, The king
said.

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Inquire whose son the young man
is.

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As David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine,

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Abner took him and brought him
before Saul with the head of the

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Philistine in his hand.
Saul said to him, Whose son are

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you, you, young man?
David answered.

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I am the son of your servant,
Jesse the Bethlehemite.

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