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This message should be preceded by the teaching
entitled “Possessing The Land”
Last week we looked at the Exodus and we learned
about possessing the land that God has promised us. We saw how the
Israelites were sent into a land full of many “ites “and there were
giants in the land.
Today were going to
look at Giant Slayers
In one part of last weeks sermon we saw a scripture
that brought about a question I would like to address a little further
today.
Numbers14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will
bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and
honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear
ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is
departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
What does it mean when your enemy is bread for you?
To answer that question lets go look at one of
biblical histories most famous GIANT SLAYERS David
David Slays Goliath
1 Samuel 17- 1 ¶ Now the Philistines gathered
together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh,
which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in
Ephesdammim.
2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered
together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array
against the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one
side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a
valley between them.
4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of
the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a
span.
A cubit is a unit of linear measure, from the elbow to the tip of the
longest finger of a man. This unit is commonly converted to 0.46 meters or
18 inches, although that varies with height of the man doing the
measurement. There is also a "long" cubit that is longer than a regular
cubit by a handbreadth. (Ezekiel 43:13)
The length from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when
the hand is stretched out (about 9 inches or 22.8 cm.).
18 inches X 6 = 108 add 9 more inches (span) =
117 inches devide 117 by 12 to find the feet and we see that Goliath stood
9.75 feet
5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he
was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five
thousand shekels of brass. 176.3698097 pounds
Shekel
A measure of weight, and when referring to that weight
in gold, silver, or brass, of money. A shekel is approximately 16 grams,
about a half an ounce, or 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12).
5000 x 16 grams= 80,000 grams 80000 gram =
176.3698097 pounds
6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a
target of brass between his shoulders.
7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam;
and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one
bearing a shield went before him.
600 x 16= 9600 9600 gram = 21.1643772 pound
8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel,
and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not
I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let
him come down to me. 9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me,
then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him,
then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 10 And the Philistine said,
I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight
together. 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 12 ¶ Now David was the son of
that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight
sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13 And
the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the
names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn,
and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 And David was the
youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 15 But David went and returned
from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. 16 And the Philistine
drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. 17 And
Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this
parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; 18
And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how
thy brethren fare, and take their pledge. 19 Now Saul, and they, and all
the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the
Philistines. 20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep
with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came
to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the
battle. 21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army
against army. 22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of
the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. 23
And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines,
and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. 24 And all
the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore
afraid. 25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come
up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who
killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him
his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. 26 And David spake
to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that
killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for
who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the
living God? 27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So
shall it be done to the man that killeth him. 28 And Eliab his eldest
brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled
against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom
hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the
naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see
the battle. 29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? 30
And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and
the people answered him again after the former manner. 31 ¶ And when the
words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he
sent for him. 32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because
of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said
to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him:
for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. 34 And David
said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion,
and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went out after
him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose
against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy
servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine
shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. 37
David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion,
and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this
Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. 38
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his
head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. 39 And David girded his sword
upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David
said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And
David put them off him. 40 ¶ And he took his staff in his hand, and chose
him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag
which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew
near to the Philistine. 41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto
David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. 42 And when the
Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a
youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto
David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine
cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and
to the beasts of the field. 45 Then said David to the Philistine,
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. 46 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 to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the
LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he
will give you into our hands.
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