Reading for March 18th

Read 1 Samuel 17.48-58
In verse 49: It is not by chance that David's stone strikes the Philistine in a spot where he is vulnerable.
David's speech shows that this is understood as God's doing.
In verse 50: This supplemental verse is a summary of the action.
It causes some tension with v. 51, which says that David killed the Philistine with his own sword after felling him with the sling and then beheaded him.
In verse 54: This verse contains an anachronism, since Jerusalem was not conquered until David became king of Israel (2 Sam 5).
His tent: Goliath's sword later surfaces among the priests at Nob (21.9), suggesting that this phrase should be read as "the tent (shrine) of Yahweh."
In verse 55: Whose son is this young man? is idiomatic.
Saul was not asking who David's father is.
Again, this question indicates the story's originally independent nature, since according to 16.14-23 Saul and David already have a close relationship.
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