David and Goliath, Part 1: The Challenge

“Nine feet of armor, shouting at an army that won't move.”

Goliath taunts Israel for forty days. A shepherd boy arrives with lunch for his brothers and can't believe no one will answer.

• GOLIATH · Adapted dialogue

  “Choose a man and have him come down to me!”

  What the text says (1 Samuel 17:8, WEB): “He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, ‘Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.”

• DAVID · Adapted dialogue

  “Who is this Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

  What the text says (1 Samuel 17:26, WEB): “David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, ‘What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?’”

Adapted lines are dramatized for the screen and are not direct quotations. The verified scripture text is shown beneath each one.

• David
• GGoliath
• SSaul
• EEliab

Themes: anxiety fear · confidence · courage · underdog