36 Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
1 Samuel 17:36
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1 Samuel 17:44–46
44 “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” 45 But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts,…
1 Samuel 17:31–33
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1 Samuel 4:8–10
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Psalm 151 1:5–7
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