Sentences with phrase «philistine giants»

He has trained and fought with a mighty band of warriors (geborim), some of whom on occasion have saved his life (21:15 - 17) or tilted with Philistine giants (21:18 - 21); and once, in a moving episode of mutual loyalty and admiration between men and leader, three of their number risked seemingly probable death to answer David's longing for the cool water of Bethlehem's well (23:13 - 17).

In an opening section of which a theological scholar would be proud, Gladwell turns the tables on the classic interpretation of the shepherd boy's battle with the Philistine giant, gradually proving his theory that David actually went into the fight as the favourite.

Not exact matches

Similarly, in the story of David and Goliath, when David heads out to face the giant Philistine foe, he clutches his sling and quietly begins to recite the 23rd Psalm, «Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.»

There is hardly a literate person in the Western world who does not know the outline of the story of David's conquest of the giant Philistine, Goliath (I Sam.

Many stones have been slung at the giant Philistine's f

Many stones have been slung at the giant Philistine's forehead, but Audi, Mercedes - Benz, Jaguar, Cadillac, and Lexus have barely managed to so much as slow its footsteps.