Hello 👋 friends, glad to see you again. In this post, we will discuss about KING DAVID.
David was the eighth son of Jesse and Nitzevet from Bethlehem in the tribe of Ephraim and he had two sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. He was a young shepherd, handsome with a sparkling eyes, he was faithful, loyal and gained the favor of God. When Saul was still king of Israel God send Prophet Samuel to Bethlehem to anoint David the son of Jesse as king, God had rejected Saul as king because of his disobedience (unlawful offering of fellowship sacrifice and failing to utterly destroyed the Amalekites and their livestock) to God’s commandments. David finally gained fame when he defeated Goliath, the champion of the Philistines but he becomes the envy of king Saul.
When king Saul begin to face challenges as a result of evil spirit sent by God to torment him, David name was mentioned because he was a skillful player of lyre, prudent, warrior and a young man of valor. The Lord was with David and when David arrived in the palace, he was loved by everyone including Jonathan the heir to the throne, he becomes the king’s weapon bearer.
There was a battle against the Philistines and Goliath challenged Israel every morning and evening for forty days and requested the champion of Israel for a single combat. The whole Israeli soldiers were afraid of Goliath because he was over nine feet tall and his bronze armor weighed about 125 pounds with a bronze helmet. He legs was protected by bronze armor and carried a bronze javelin slung over his shoulder. His spear was as thick as the bar on a weaver’s loom and it’s iron head weighed about 15 pounds.
David was sent to the camp by his father Jesse to bring provisions and know about the welfare of his elder brothers serving in the army. David heard Goliath challenged the Israeli army and when the Israeli soldiers saw Goliath, they ran away in terror and said to David “the king had promised to give a big reward to anyone who kills him, the king will also give him his daughter to marry and his father’s family will not pay tax”. David was determined to fight Goliath to take away the reproach and frees Israel from disgrace, he said “who is this heathen Philistines to defy the army of the living God”?. His elder brother Eliab was displeased to hear David talk about his readiness to fight Goliath and he said to David “who is taking care of the sheep in the wilderness,? You smart aleck, you just came to watch the battle” but David pay no attention to him as he continued asking other people.
Finally he was brought to king Saul and he said to the king, I’ll fight him and assure the people not to be afraid. The king was surprised and refused David offer to fight Goliath because “David was still a young boy while Goliath had been a soldier all his life”. But David had a testimony “your majesty, I take care of my father’s sheep in the wilderness and whenever a lion or bear carries any lamb, I’ll go after it and rescue the lamb and if the lion or bear turned against me, I grab it by the throat and beat it to death. I will do the same to this heathen Philistines who had defies the army of the living God. If God can save me from the lions and bears, He will also save me from Goliath, declared determined David.
The Lord will be with you said the king to David. The king gave David his armor, helmet and a coat of armor and David could not walk with it because he was not used to wearing them. He took them off, take his shepherd’s stick and choose five smooth stones from the stream and put them in his bag with his sling ready, he went against Goliath.
Goliath with his shield bearer approaches David, and seeing nice looking young David with his sling, Goliath was filled with scorn and asked “do you think I am a dog”? “Come on and I will kill you and give your body to the animals and birds to eat”. David answered, “You are coming against me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the Israelite armies, which you have defied. This very day the Lord will put you in my power; I will defeat you and cut off your head. And I will give the bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God, and everyone here will see that the Lord does not need swords or spears to save his people. He is victorious in battle, and he will put all of you in our power.” David rushed towards Goliath and took a stone and slung at Goliath which hits his forehead, breaking his skull and he fell backward on the ground. David having no sword ran to him, stood over him and cut his head with Goliath’s sword, the Philistines all ran away seeing their hero on the ground, and the Israeli soldiers pursued them and looted their camp. David took Goliath’s head to Jerusalem but Goliath’s weapons was kept in his tent.
The Israeli soldiers was returning from the battle and women from every town in Israel comes out to meet king Saul and his soldiers, they were joyful singing and dancing “Saul has killed thousands but David, ten of thousands”. They will be making him king next Saul said to himself and from that day, he hated David and seek to kill him with his spear but David dogged it and it happened on two occasions. Saul becomes afraid of David because he was such a successful leader and the Lord is with him.
The story of king David continues in our next post, it’s a pleasure having you here.
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