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However, Saul prayed that the end might be, by God's assistance,
not disagreeable to the alacrity and boldness of the child; and said, "Go
thy way to the fight." So he put about him his breastplate, and girded
on his sword, and fitted the helmet to his head, and sent him away. But
David was burdened with his armor, for he had not been exercised to it,
nor had he learned to walk with it; so he said, "Let this armor be
thine, O king, who art able to bear it; but give me leave to fight as thy
servant, and as I myself desire." Accordingly he laid by the armor,
and taking his staff with him, and putting five stones out of the brook
into a shepherd's bag, and having a sling in his right hand, he went towards
Goliath. But the adversary seeing him come in such a manner, disdained
him, and jested upon him, as if he had not such weapons with him as are
usual when one man fights against another, but such as are used in driving
away and avoiding of dogs; and said, "Dost thou take me not for a
man, but a dog?" To which he replied, "No, not for a dog, but
for a creature worse than a dog." This provoked Goliath to anger,
who thereupon cursed him by the name of God, and threatened to give his
flesh to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air, to be torn
in pieces by them. To whom David answered, "Thou comest to me with a sword,
and with a spear, and with a breastplate; but I have God for my armor in
coming against thee, who will destroy thee and all thy army by my hands
for I will this day cut off thy head, and cast the other parts of thy body
to the dogs, and all men shall learn that God is the protector of the Hebrews,
and that our armor and our strength is in his providence; and that without
God's assistance, all other warlike preparations and power are useless."
So the Philistine being retarded by the weight of his armor, when he attempted
to meet David in haste, came on but slowly, as despising him, and depending
upon it that he should slay him, who was both unarmed and a child also,
without any trouble at all.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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