"Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield:
but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver
thee into mine hand! And I will smite thee, and take thine head from
thee: and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this
day unto the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, that all
the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly
shall know, that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the
battle is the Lord's!"
Then he ran swiftly towards the giant, and put his hand in his bag and
took out a stone and slung it, and it struck the Philistine in his
forehead, so that he sank down on the ground with his face to the earth.
So David ran and stood upon the giant, and took the giant's sword from
its sheath and slew the Philistine, and cut off his head.
Then the men of Israel arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines
till they reached the gates of Ekron. Then they returned and took all
the spoil from the tents of their enemies.
And David was brought before Saul, carrying the head of the giant in
his hand.
No wonder that King David in after years wrote in the 18th Psalm:
"I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my
fortress, and deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my
buckler and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call
upon the Lord . . . so shall I be saved from mine enemies!"
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