David and Goliath

David and the GIANT
Mostly everyone has heard this story. Not just those people who've read the Bible thoroughly. You may have read this as a child.

This is the start.

A little shepherd boy fights this giant - this Giant is SERIOUSLY all armed. The Bible uses quite a few verses on just his soldier outfit. So David, some little boy, 17  by just throwing a stone in his forehead  kills an experienced all-armed giant. And he won on the FIRST shot. So let's start -

David Kills Goliath

17:1¹ The Philistines gathered their troops² for battle. They assembled at Socoh in Judah. They camped in Ephes Dammim, between Socoh and Azekah. 

So the enemy team gathers up the soldiers for a war. They got all ready at this place called Socoh which is in Judah. They camped in another place called Ephes Dammim , and they say that this is in between Socoh and another place called Azekah.

That's a lot of information.

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army³ assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against⁴ the Philistines.

Saul, by the way is king at this point. So Saul and the Israelite's army is fighting against the Philistines. This is the plan of the good team. The Israelites army plan is here. They both got ready and camped between two mountains, that place is called Elah. And there, they also arranged the battle to fight against the Philistines. 

17:3 The Philistines were standing on one hill, and the Israelites⁵ on another hill, with the valley between them. 

Now, the Philistines get on one hill, the Israelites on the other, with Elah, the valley in between.

 17:4 Then a champion⁶ came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall.

So, look. The enemies have this big champion. The guys name is Goliath, and he's from Gath. And, he's almost seven feet tall!

Nowdays, people are aroung 5 foot 4 to 6 foot 3 or 4. He is about two feet taller that most of us!

17:5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels. 

This guy's got a bronze helmet, an armor and it's equal to 5000 shekels which is roughly (pretty rough) 250000 ounces.

17:7 The shaft¹⁰ of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the iron point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels.¹¹ His shield bearer was walking before him.

His spear is BIG and the point sure weighed a lot. The guy who holds his shield was walking in front of him.