![]() Saul reluctantly agrees and offers his armor, which David declines, taking only his staff, sling, and five stones from a brook.ĭavid and Goliath confront each other, Goliath with his armor and javelin, David with his staff and sling. Twice a day for 40 days, morning and evening, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenges the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide the outcome in single combat, but Saul is afraid. In 1 Samuel 17, Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines in the Valley of Elah. David hoists the severed head of Goliath as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1866). ![]()
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