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David and Goliath

Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 2:00 MJA Uncategorized 24

A legendary tale about how one can overcome their problems, no matter how big they are.
SNIP: The video messed up the reason for the 5 stones.

24 Comments on David and Goliath

  1. One of my Manderins at church was talking about David and Goliath in the hall with me. “My favorite part is when David killed him with a sling shot and a stone.” I said, “My favorite part was when David beheaded Goliath right after he killed him.” He froze in tracks, all shocked. “What? They didn’t teach you that in Sunday School class?” LOL!

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  4. If you’ve never used a sling, you may want to try one. As a 15yr old boy I recall throwing stones right though billboards signs along the rail road. 3/4 plywood was no problem for the sling. With leather boot laces and a old leather used woman’s pocket book or baseball catchers mitt will supply you with all the materal you need to make one.

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  6. He was inspired and aided by Almighty God who makes impossible things possible. Some people gloss over that part.

    It’s not just about humans achieving great things but relying on God in attempting to do so.

    But then faith and trust in a supreme being is an obsolete concept.

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  7. For years, naysayers have expressed doubt over the authenticity of the story, claiming it was unlikely that a battle-hardened warrior like Goliath would have fallen to a small shepherd boy like David, especially when the only weapon he had was a stone in a sling.

    But Goliath’s gigantism was likely caused by an abnormality in the pituitary gland. Weak or double vision is a common symptom of this condition, since the gland is close to the crossover point of the optic nerves, and enlargement of the gland would place pressure on the optic nerves. Without the glint of the sun reflecting off armor (David refused Saul’s offer to let him use his), Goliath would have had difficulty seeing David approach. A well-aimed stone from a sling (likely traveling as fast as a professional baseball player’s fastball pitch) striking Goliath in the head would have ruptured the pituitary gland and caused an aneurysm.

    So no, a small, lightly armed boy hitting him in the head with a stone was not an unlikely way to kill him. It was in fact the most efficient way to do it.

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  8. According to 1 Samuel 17:51 David killed Goliath by cutting off his head with Goliath’s own sword.

    This would suggest the sling knocked Goliath unconscious and he fell down but was not dead from the blow to his head.

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  9. TN Tuxedo, that might miss the point a bit. Throughout the bible, God likes to prove his strength through the weakest of vessels. Gigantism didn’t defeat Goliath, God did.

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  10. In case you didn’t know the number 5 is the number of grace. It was thru God’s grace that David used stones to kill Goliath. All he really needed was one stone and the rest weren’t backup in case he missed. God does impossible things thru the smallest of objects and impossible faith, Goliath and no one else believed that a runty, skinny little kid with a sling and 5 stones could kill Goliath but God did.

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  12. According to 1 Samuel 17:51 David killed Goliath by cutting off his head with Goliath’s own sword.

    This would suggest the sling knocked Goliath unconscious and he fell down but was not dead from the blow to his head.

    And David wasn’t a “boy” in the sense of what some of us learned in Sunday School, coloring in the picture of a 10-year-old with his sheep.

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  14. Always fascinates me that MJA manages to post some bit of obscure history that flies like a blue bird over my transom window.

    A few weeks ago I started looking into the mystery of the Biblical Nephilim; who were they? Where were they? What happened to them? Wowsers! According to many accounts, bones of these giants have been found all over the world; many right here in the U.S. There have been many newspaper stories of archeological findings, run in legit newspapers up through the early 1900’s, and then — poof! — all these stories (and findings) disappeared at about the same time Darwin published “Origin of Species.”

    Check it out sometime.

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  17. The Nephilim (/ˈnɛfɪˌlɪm/; Hebrew: נְפִילִים‎) are mysterious beings or people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.[1] They are large and strong;[1] the word Nephilim is loosely translated as giants in some Bibles but left untranslated in others. Some traditional Jewish explanations interpret them as fallen angels. The main reference to them is in Genesis, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed.[1][2]

    According to Numbers 13:33, they later inhabited Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan.

    A similar or identical biblical Hebrew term, read as “Nephilim” by some scholars, or as the word “fallen” by others, appears in Ezekiel 32:27.[3][4]
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    There’s plenty of mysteries and miracles written about in the Bible. Atheists like to point out all the errors or with their PhD (piled higher and deeper) in the Bible. Whether David killed Goliath the way that he did is immaterial, it’s the fact that David did kill him and Gold helped him. The Bible is filled with object lessons.

    Philippians 4:13 NKJV – I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

    I heard there’s bones of giants at the Smithsonian hidden away. I believe it.

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  19. When searching for their homeland, the Israeli scouts bumped into the sons of the giant, Anak.
    Numbers 13:29 through 33:

    “The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

    30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

    31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

    32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

    33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

  21. “…I know what you’re thinking, ‘did he fire six stones or only five?’ …I have to tell ya, in all the excitement, I kinda forgot myself. So, you gotta ask yourself a question; ‘do I feel lucky today?’ Well, do ya …PUNK?” -David

    Bitter, the brothers were killed later; they were giants as well.

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  22. As for the 5 stones?

    KJV has the verse:
    1 SAM 17:40
    And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

    Maybe you have a different version bible?

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    I was under the impression that Nephilim were the children of the fallen angels. That they became the Mighty men of old. Their progeny started maxing out smaller after the flood. (That means some giant genes were in one or more of the wives onboard the Ark.) Same time and reason that regular people started living shorter lives. The environment before the flood allowed for richer oxygen – 30% vs today’s 21% – and so the earth was hyperbaric from the air pressure being double or triple the current air pressure. That’s why everything was bigger. They lived longer and oxygen rich air allowed for healing and performance you can only imagine theses days. Try out a medical-strength hyperbaric chamber sometime. Imagine everyday air being like that. IQs would shoot up, IMO, and you would heal very quickly if injured.

    This also explains the horse-size nostrils on a mega-ton Dino – Oxygen rich atmosphere – and why the reptiles got so big and old.

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  23. “…it shows us despite how large adversity may be for an individual, anyone has the ability to overcome it. It serves to teach us that, by having faith, though not necessarily in God …”

    No. That is NOT the meaning of the historical event told in the Bible. It was not a fairy tale told to children, but what actually happened during the battle the Israelites had with the Philistines.

    God chose David to be Saul’s replacement as King, 1 Samuel 16:1-13. In vs 13, after Samuel anointed David, “from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David.”

    In verse 37 of the account of David and Goliath, David replied to Saul when he said that David was just a youth, “The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

    Then in verse 45 & 46, David told Goliath’s shield bearer, ““You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head.”

    So, David’s faith was NOT in himself, but entirely in God.

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