BRAGADAYJAH
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Hearing
little David speak thus about Goliath, Eliab, David’s oldest brother was angry
with him and asked him why he had come to the battlefield, and with whom he had
left the care of the sheep? Eliab told
David that he knew him well. In particular he told him, he knew his pride and
the haughtiness of his heart, and that he had come down for no other purpose than
to take part in the battle. And David asked his brother to tell him what he had
done, and asked him further whether there was not cause for him to be
concerned. Still David continued to enquire what was to be done to the man who
kills Goliath and the men all told him what they had told him before. Then
eventually David’s words were told to Saul and he sent for David; and asked him
what was going on. And David told him
that he was prepared to go and fight against Goliath; but Saul told David that
he was just a youth and not strong enough to go and fight against Goliath. But David responded to Saul and told him once
when he was tending his father’s sheep that a lion and a bear attacked the
sheep and the lion actually had one of the lambs in his mouth, and how he had
confronted the lion and rescued the lamb from its mouth, and killed both the
lion and the bear. So as far as the uncircumcised Philistine called Goliath was
concerned, he count him no more ferocious that the lion and the bear, and promised
to kill him too, just as he had killed the lion and the bear, because he dared insult the people of God. And moreover said
David, “The same Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and the paw
of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of the Philistine.” And Saul said unto him, “Go, and the Lord be
with you.”
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