David and Goliath

technically Saul [1st Samuel 17, but actually Saul was rejected by Yahweh as king over yisrael back in chapter 15:26; so textually; HOWEVER - because david was anointed by the prophet Samuel as king in 16:13; the death of goliath happened in chap 17....so

saul rejected-15:23

david anointed-16:13

goliath killed-17:15

you could then say that david was king when he killed goliath :)

What we need to define here is what you might stand for as "Golliath", and for what reason he may be in an after life usually as a result of crimes and evil.

Most likely the answer would be "do we even know?" since not a single person on this earth can confirm an existence (or lack) of divinity and of course an afterlife.

David struck Goliath with a stone on his forehead, causing the giant to fall to the ground. This critical moment is described in the biblical account of David and Goliath found in 1 Samuel 17. The stone, propelled by David's sling, was pivotal in defeating the heavily armored Goliath.

David, despite being a youth, was chosen to fight Goliath due to his faith in God and his experience as a shepherd. He had previously defended his flock against lions and bears, which gave him confidence in his abilities. Moreover, his trust in God's strength and guidance set him apart from the seasoned warriors who were afraid of Goliath. Ultimately, David's courage and reliance on divine support enabled him to confront and defeat the giant.

He slayed Goliath about 10 years before becoming king. The date would probably be around 500 years before Jesus.

David first became king of Judah in 1010 BCE, when he was 30. This would mean that David slayed Goliath around 1023-1018 BCE, when he was somewhere around 17 to 22 years old.

In this story little red chief does something that's why he related to Goliath because he probably went like wow at cool wen he hit someone up side the head

Narrative sequence being it tells a story.

The Philistines collected for war against Israel at Socoh and then encamped in Ephes-dammim. As the battle lines of the Philistines and Saul's army faced each other across the valley, the gigantic warrior Goliath emerged from the Philistine camp and loudly challenged Israel to supply a man to fight him in single combat, the outcome to determine which army should become the servant of the other. Morning and evening, for 40 days, the army of Israel, in great fear, was subjected to these taunts. No Israelite soldier had the courage to accept the challenge. (1Sam. 17:1-11, 16) The young shepherd David, with God's spirit upon him, met Goliath's challenge.

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Just who killed Goliath, and when, is not entirely agreed in the Bible. 1 Samuel chapter 17 says that David killed Goliath while still a young shepherd boy, or perhaps the musician to King Saul, or perhaps Saul's armour bearer. In all cases, Saul was still king of Israel.

Another episode, at 2 Samuel 21:19 casts further light on the legend of Goliath. The Hebrew Bible in English (JPS 1917 Edition) says: And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. In other words, there seems to be another tradition that Elhanan killed Goliath. The translators of the King James Version (KJV) were probably aware of this inconsistency, adding 'the brother of' to verse 21:19 [in italics to indicate that this was not an exact translation], but most other English translations of the Book of Samuel seem to have continued with the Hebrew Bible version.

1 Chronicles, written later and apparently dependent on the Deuteronomic History, makes no mention at all of David killing Goliath, even though the Books of Samuel and Kings present this at the most important single feat leading to David being accepted as a potential king.

I Samuel 17:40 tells us that David chose 5 smooth stones, but there is no mention of why the number 5? David was like most persons in that no one would take just one bullet for a pistol against a giant or an enemy soldier.

Where did David bury Goliath's head? And What does the Story of David and Goliath have to do with Jesus Dying on the Cross?

Everyone knows the story of David and Goliath. But many are not aware of what happened after David killed the Giant.

1 Samuel 17:53-54 “And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp. And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.”

Now the battle between David and Goliath took place in the Valley of Kayla, which was almost 20 miles from Jerusalem. Why would David carry Goliath’s head all the way to Jerusalem, and what did he do with it when he got there?

It was a common practice for a king to decapitate the head of his enemy, and then stick it on a pole high on a hill, where many people could see it. The fact that David brought Goliath’s head to Jerusalem was quite an astonishing fulfillment of ancient prophecy. But to where in Jerusalem did David bring Goliath’s head?

One clue is the connection between the name “Goliath of Gath,” and Golgotha. The name of Goliath of Gath is a name derived from the two words “Gola Gatha.” One can say fairly confidently, that David took the head of Goliath (the head of the serpent) and after displaying it on a highest hill in Jerusalem for all to see, buried it in a place called Golgotha, still known today as "the place of the skull."

When David took Goliath’s head back to Jerusalem it would have been considered unclean and against Jewish law to bring a stinking rotting head into the city. The head had to be buried somewhere outside of the city, as gentiles (non Jews) were considered unclean. The head of Goliath was a trophy of war and would have been displayed on the highest hill in the area. Golgotha was the highest point on Mount Moriah just outside of the city gates, overlooking Jerusalem, so that God’s people could look up and see God’s enemy has been destroyed.

David was a type of Christ, and Goliath was a type of the devil, (the serpent). Goliath was a descendent of the giants which were born as a result of the fallen angles having relations with the earthly women. Goliath, who was of the Lineage of Cain, was ⅔’s angel and 1/3rd human, and was a genetic mutation of God’s perfect creation of man, whom God had made in the image and likeness of himself.

Goliath represented pure evil, the “seed (children) of the serpent.” He was one of the super soldiers that the devil and his fallen angels had created (sired), with the aim of totally destroying God’s lineage (righteous seed) from off the face of the earth. So that the promised Messiah could never come, and the earth and all its people would remain under the devil, his demons, and his fallen angels' control.

This giant super soldier would come out in the field and mock God every day; and had a helmet of brass, and a coat of mail (small brass rings) made of five thousand shekels of brass. And he had shields of brass upon his legs, and a breastplate of brass between his shoulders. (1 Samuel 17:5,6).

The word for bronze, nehoshet, sounds similar to the word for serpent, nehesh. Brass looks like gold when it's shiny, but when it starts to weather and gets tarnished, it starts to show its true color, a slimy green, like the scales of a snake or fish. When David cut the head off this giant slimy serpent, it was a prophetic picture of Jesus crushing the head of the serpent at the foot of the cross.

Thus fulfilling the prophecy that Jesus was the lamb slain before God laid the foundations of the earth. He is the Messiah, the promised seed of the woman, that was pierced in the heel, while crushing the head of the Serpent. Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; It shall break thy head and thou shalt break his heel.”

Mount Moriah, is the Holy Place where Solomon built the Temple, where Abraham offered up Isaac, where Jesus died on the cross, where Jacob dreamed of a staircase that reached up into heaven. and where David like Moses raised the serpent's head high on a pole for all to see, and as many as were bitten by the serpent and believed in Jesus, lived!

David's action of bringing Goliath's head to Golgotha the highest hill on Mount Moriah where Solomon would build God's Temple, is similar to what the Philistines did when they brought King Saul's head to the temple of their god Dagon, and fastened it to the wall. See: (I Chronicles 10:10 and 2 Samuel 31:8-10)

The fact that the Ark of the Covenant was recently found in a cave 20 foot below where Jesus was crucified on Golgotha, is all evidence pointing to the fact that this is where God's Temple and His Holy of Holies now dwells here on earth, and not in the city of Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. For more information see: They Found the Ark of the Covenant under Golgotha.

The point of that story is that a little man can take down the largest of people if he uses his brain. And that is what David did. He thought and decided that the stones would take Goliath down.

Goliath was physically huge , had huge weapons, and had always been trained for battle.

David was not physically a big man, and was unable to wear armor or carry a standard sword (which were cumbersome to him).

He was Six cubits tall, which is 18-22 inches Per cubit. So he was about 10 feet tall, and the average weight for a person 5 feet tall is is about 135, but he was a big dude, so he was probably anywhere from 300-400 pounds.

According to 1 Samuel chapter 17, Goliath challenged the Israelites to a contest between himself and the best fighter among the Israelites. The young and untested David took up the challenge and killed Goliath with a slingshot and a stone. On the other hand,Jacob L. Wright, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Emory University, has written that the most popular legends about David, including his killing of Goliath, his affair with Bathsheba and his ruling of a United Kingdom of Israel rather than just Judah, are the creation of those who lived generations after him, in particular those living in the late Persian or Hellenistic period. This would mean that it is not a true story.

It means that David beat Goliath (that David won). "Licked" is just a way of saying that he won by a lot or "gave him a good beating". Basically, there was no question that David had won.

Before 600 BC, there was no coin system and a system of weight "shekel" was being used. Weight being commodities such as Gold, silver, wheat, etc.