BRAGADAYJAH 139

Friday, February 5, 2016

BRAGADAYJAH 867

BRAGADAYJAH 867
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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