SAMPLER: DAVID AND GOLIATH BIBLE NRSV

SAMPLER: DAVID AND GOLIATH BIBLE NRSV

HOW IT WORKS 1 smuel The Connect Bible is used for both Holy Moly Sundy School nd Connect Tween Sundy School. Age-pproprite ctivities mke is esy (nd fun!) for kids to explore scripture. Key Pssges Importnt verses re highlighted throughout the Bible so they re esy to spot. ICONS The Holy Moly icon is subtle cue to leders nd prents tht this content is perfect for elementry ge kids. Instnt Activities Fun gmes nd quick ctivities help reinforce the Bible stories without even leving the pge! those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption nd the evil of your hert; for you hve come down just to see the bttle. 29 Dvid sid, Wht hve I done now? It ws only question. 30 He turned wy from him towrd nother nd spoke in the sme wy; nd the people nswered him gin s before. 31 When the words tht Dvid spoke were herd, they repeted them before Sul; nd he sent for him. 32 Dvid sid to Sul, Let no one s hert fil becuse of him; your servnt will go nd fight with this Philistine. 33 Sul sid to Dvid, You re not ble to go ginst this Philistine to fight with him; for you re just boy, nd he hs been wrrior from his youth. 34 But Dvid sid to Sul, Your servnt used to keep sheep for his fther; nd whenever lion or ber cme, nd took lmb from the flock, 35 I went fter it nd struck it down, rescuing the lmb from its mouth; nd if it turned ginst me, I would ctch it by the jw, strike it down, nd kill it. 36 Your servnt hs killed both lions nd bers; nd this uncircumcised Philistine shll be like one of them, since he hs defied Gk Syr: Heb mong men 1 smuel 17:29 the rmies of the living God. 37 Dvid sid, The Lord, who sved me from the pw of the lion nd from the pw of the ber, will sve me from the hnd of this Philistine. So Sul sid to Dvid, Go, nd my the Lord be with you! 38 Sul clothed Dvid with his rmor; he put bronze helmet on his hed nd clothed him with cot of mil. 39 Dvid strpped Sul s sword over the rmor, nd he tried in vin to wlk, for he ws not used to them. Then Dvid sid to Sul, I cnnot wlk with these; for I m not used to them. So Dvid removed them. 40 Then he took his stff in his hnd, nd chose five smooth stones from the wdi, nd put them in his shepherd s bg, in the pouch; his sling ws in his hnd, nd he drew ner to the Philistine. 41 The Philistine cme on nd drew ner to Dvid, with his shield-berer in front of him. 42 When the Philistine looked nd sw Dvid, he disdined him, for he ws only youth, ruddy nd hndsome in ppernce. 43 The Philistine sid to Dvid, Am I dog, tht you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed Dvid by his gods. 44 The 1 smuel 17:1-52 Huge Golith ws scry, but little Dvid ws dedly! Golith met his end when Dvid used his trusty sling nd smooth stone. Mtch ech smll dedly thing to its description. You ll know if you ve ccidentlly eten these if you hve vomiting, bloody dirrhe, nd stomch pin, before flling into com. From this tiny cutie comes some smelly stuff with prsite tht cuses toxoplsmosis which cn be ftl, especilly to unborn bbies. These buzzers ren t rre, nd neither re their victims. Through mlri, dengue fever, nd West Nile diseses, these little suckers kill over 3 million people yer. So cute, so dedly! These little se cretures give one wrning, then hit you with neurotoxin tht will prlyze you. There re over 35,000 venomous vrieties of these common cretures! Answers: Spiders, Amnit mushrooms, Mosquito, Pufferfish, Kitten poop Who wrote this? Did Smuel write 1 Smuel? Probbly not. Since it is such complete history, it is believed tht tem of uthors wrote it lter. They probbly worked on it for more thn 100 yers! Why ws this written? First Smuel helps to explin how Isrel went from bumbling sinners ruled by judges to mjor kingdom with proper ruler nd roots. The uthors wrote it minly to show tht God hd done ll this for them. Wht s the connection? Bck in the book of Genesis, God mde promise covennt to the erly Isrelites, Abrhm, Isc, nd Jcob. God promised to lwys love nd bless them. Through Moses, God gve them the lw to help them understnd how they should live. (Red bout tht in the books Exodus through Deuteronomy.) Now, through the estblishment of kingdom in Isrel, God s covennt ws finlly fulfilled. How does this work? Hnnh pryed nd pryed for bby. Finlly, God blessed her with son nmed Smuel. He grew up in the temple, where God clled him to become powerful prophet nd leder of Isrel. God told Smuel to noint Sul. (Anointing mens tht Smuel poured oil on Sul s hed to show tht he ws chosen to be king.) Lter, when Sul didn t work out s king, Smuel nointed Dvid, who becme the gretest king of Isrel. Where should I go from here? God clls nd Smuel listens (chpter 3:1-18). The first king is chosen (chpter 9). Sul loses God s fvor (chpter 15:10-35). Dvid previls over Golith (chpter 17). A king nd his sons die (chpter 31).

1 smuel 17:1 DviD nd Golith the Philistines gthered their rmies for bttle; they were gthered t Socoh, which belongs 17Now to Judh, nd encmped between Socoh nd Azekh, in Ephesdmmim. 2 Sul nd the Isrelites gthered nd encmped in the vlley of Elh, nd formed rnks ginst the Philistines. 3 The Philistines stood on the mountin on the one side, nd Isrel stood on the mountin on the other side, with vlley between them. 4 And there cme out from the cmp of the Philistines chmpion nmed Golith, of Gth, whose height ws six cubits nd spn. 5 He hd helmet of bronze on his hed, nd he ws rmed with cot of mil; the weight of the cot ws five thousnd shekels of bronze. 6 He hd greves of bronze on his legs nd jvelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 7 The shft of his sper ws like wever s bem, nd his sper s hed weighed six hundred shekels of iron; nd his shield-berer went before him. 8 He stood nd shouted to the rnks of Isrel, Why hve you come out to drw up for bttle? Am I not Philistine, nd re you not servnts of Sul? Choose mn for yourselves, nd let him come down to me. 9 If he is ble to fight with me nd kill me, then we will be your servnts; but if I previl ginst him nd kill him, then you shll be our servnts nd serve us. 10 And the Philistine sid, Tody I defy the rnks of Isrel! Give me mn, tht we my fight together. 11 When Sul nd ll Isrel herd these words of the Philistine, they were dismyed nd gretly frid. 12 Now Dvid ws the son of n Ephrthite of Bethlehem in Judh, nmed Jesse, who hd eight sons. In the dys of Sul the mn ws lredy old nd dvnced in yers. 13 The three eldest sons of Jesse hd followed Sul to the bttle; the nmes of his three sons who went to the bttle were Elib the firstborn, nd next to him Abindb, nd the third Shmmh. 14 Dvid ws the youngest; the three eldest followed Sul, 15 but Dvid went bck nd forth from Sul to feed his fther s sheep t Bethlehem. 16 For forty dys the Philistine cme forwrd nd took his stnd, morning nd evening. 17 Jesse sid to his son Dvid, Tke for your brothers n ephh of this prched grin nd these ten loves, nd crry them quickly to the cmp to your brothers; 18 lso tke these ten cheeses to the commnder of their thousnd. See how your brothers fre, nd bring some token from them. 19 Now Sul, nd they, nd ll the men of Isrel, were in the vlley of Elh, fighting with the Philistines. 20 Dvid rose erly in the morning, left the sheep with keeper, took the provisions, nd went s Jesse hd commnded him. He cme to the encmpment s the rmy ws going forth to the bttle line, shouting the wr cry. 21 Isrel nd the Philistines drew up for bttle, rmy ginst rmy. 22 Dvid left the things in chrge of the keeper of the bggge, rn to the rnks, nd went nd greeted his brothers. 23 As he tlked with them, the chm pion, the Philistine of Gth, Golith by nme, cme up out of the rnks of the Philistines, nd spoke the sme words s before. And Dvid herd him. 24 All the Isrelites, when they sw the mn, fled from him nd were very much frid. 25 The Isrelites sid, Hve you seen this mn who hs come up? Surely he hs come up to defy Isrel. The king will gretly enrich the mn who kills him, nd will give him his dughter nd mke his fmily free in Isrel. 26 Dvid sid to the men who stood by him, Wht shll be done for the mn who kills this Philistine, nd tkes wy the reproch from Isrel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine tht he should defy the rmies of the living God? 27 The people nswered him in the sme wy, So shll it be done for the mn who kills him. 28 His eldest brother Elib herd him tlking to the men; nd Elib s nger ws kindled ginst Dvid. He sid, Why hve you come down? With whom hve you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption nd the evil of your hert; for you hve come down just to see the bttle. 29 Dvid sid, Wht hve I done now? It ws only question. 30 He turned wy from him towrd nother nd spoke in the sme wy; nd the people nswered him gin s before. 31 When the words tht Dvid spoke were herd, they repeted them before Sul; nd he sent for him. 32 Dvid sid to Sul, Let no one s hert fil becuse of him; your servnt will go nd fight with this Philistine. 33 Sul sid to Dvid, You re not ble to go ginst this Philistine to fight with him; for you re just boy, nd he hs been wrrior from his youth. 34 But Dvid sid to Sul, Your servnt used to keep sheep for his fther; nd whenever lion or ber cme, nd took lmb from the flock, 35 I went fter it nd struck it down, rescuing the lmb from its mouth; nd if it turned ginst me, I would ctch it by the jw, strike it down, nd kill it. 36 Your servnt hs killed both lions nd bers; nd this uncircumcised Philistine shll be like one of them, since he hs defied Gk Syr: Heb mong men the rmies of the living God. 37 Dvid sid, The Lord, who sved me from the pw of the lion nd from the pw of the ber, will sve me from the hnd of this Philistine. So Sul sid to Dvid, Go, nd my the Lord be with you! 38 Sul clothed Dvid with his rmor; he put bronze helmet on his hed nd clothed him with cot of mil. 39 Dvid strpped Sul s sword over the rmor, nd he tried in vin to wlk, for he ws not used to them. Then Dvid sid to Sul, I cnnot wlk with these; for I m not used to them. So Dvid removed them. 40 Then he took his stff in his hnd, nd chose five smooth stones from the wdi, nd put them in his shepherd s bg, in the pouch; his sling ws in his hnd, nd he drew ner to the Philistine. 41 The Philistine cme on nd drew ner to Dvid, with his shield-berer in front of him. 42 When the Philistine looked nd sw Dvid, he disdined him, for he ws only youth, ruddy nd hndsome in ppernce. 43 The Philistine sid to Dvid, Am I dog, tht you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed Dvid by his gods. 44 The 1 smuel 17:1-52 Huge Golith ws scry, but little Dvid ws dedly! Golith met his end when Dvid used his trusty sling nd smooth stone. Mtch ech smll dedly thing to its description. You ll know if you ve ccidentlly eten these if you hve vomiting, bloody dirrhe, nd stomch pin, before flling into com. From this tiny cutie comes some smelly stuff with prsite tht cuses toxoplsmosis which cn be ftl, especilly to unborn bbies. These buzzers ren t rre, nd neither re their victims. Through mlri, dengue fever, nd West Nile diseses, these little suckers kill over 3 million people yer. So cute, so dedly! These little se cretures give one wrning, then hit you with neurotoxin tht will prlyze you. There re over 35,000 venomous vrieties of these common cretures! Answers: Spiders, Amnit mushrooms, Mosquito, Pufferfish, Kitten poop 1 smuel 17:29

1 smuel 17:45 1 smuel 19:3 Philistine sid to Dvid, Come to me, nd I will give your flesh to the birds of the ir nd to the wild nimls of the field. 45 But Dvid sid to the Philistine, You come to me with sword nd sper nd jvelin; but I come to you in the nme of the Lord of hosts, the God of the rmies of Isrel, whom you hve defied. 46 This very dy the Lord will deliver you into my hnd, nd I will strike you down nd cut off your hed; nd I will give the ded bodies of the Philistine rmy this very dy to the birds of the ir nd to the wild nimls of the erth, so tht ll the erth my know tht there is God in Isrel, 47 nd tht ll this ssembly my know tht the Lord does not sve by sword nd sper; for the bttle is the Lord s nd he will give you into our hnd. 48 When the Philistine drew nerer to meet Dvid, Dvid rn quickly towrd the bttle line to meet the Philistine. 49 Dvid put his hnd in his bg, took out stone, slung it, nd struck the Philistine on his forehed; the stone snk into his forehed, nd he fell fce down on the ground. 50 So Dvid previled over the Philistine with sling nd stone, striking down the Philistine nd killing him; there ws no sword in Dvid s hnd. 51 Then Dvid rn nd stood over the Philistine; he grsped his sword, drew it out of its sheth, nd killed him; then he cut off his hed with it. When the Philistines sw tht their chmpion ws ded, they fled. 52 The troops of Isrel nd Judh rose up with shout nd pursued the Philistines s fr s Gth nd the gtes of Ekron, so tht the wounded Philistines fell on the wy from Shrim s fr s Gth nd Ekron. 53 The Isrelites cme bck from chsing the Philistines, nd they plundered their cmp. 54 Dvid took the hed of the Philistine nd brought it to Jeruslem; but he put his rmor in his tent. 55 When Sul sw Dvid go out ginst the Philistine, he sid to Abner, the commnder of the rmy, Abner, whose son is this young mn? Abner sid, As your soul lives, O king, I do not know. 56 The king sid, Inquire whose son the stripling is. 57 On Dvid s return from killing the Philistine, Abner took him nd brought him before Sul, with the hed of the Philistine in his hnd. 58 Sul sid to him, Whose son re you, young mn? And Dvid nswered, I m the son of your servnt Jesse the Bethlehemite. Jonthn s Covennt with Dvid Dvid hd finished speking to Sul, the soul of Jonthn ws bound to the soul of Dvid, nd 18When Jonthn loved him s his own soul. 2 Sul took him tht dy nd would not let him return to his fther s house. 3 Then Jonthn mde covennt with Dvid, becuse he loved him s his own soul. 4 Jonthn stripped himself of the robe tht he ws wering, nd gve it to Dvid, nd his rmor, nd even his sword nd his bow nd his belt. 5 Dvid went out nd ws successful wherever Sul sent him; s result, Sul set him over the rmy. And ll the people, even the servnts of Sul, pproved. 6 As they were coming home, when Dvid returned from killing the Philistine, the women cme out of ll the towns of Isrel, singing nd dncing, to meet King Sul, with tmbourines, with songs of joy, nd with musicl instruments. b 7 And the women sng to one nother s they mde merry, Sul hs killed his thousnds, nd Dvid his ten thousnds. 8 Sul ws very ngry, for this sying displesed him. He sid, They hve scribed to Dvid ten thousnds, nd to me they hve scribed thousnds; wht more cn he hve but the kingdom? 9 So Sul eyed Dvid from tht dy on. Sul Tries to Kill Dvid 10 The next dy n evil spirit from God rushed upon Sul, nd he rved within his house, while Dvid ws plying the lyre, s he did dy by dy. Sul hd his sper in his hnd; 11 nd Sul threw the sper, for he thought, I will pin Dvid to the wll. But Dvid eluded him twice. 12 Sul ws frid of Dvid, becuse the Lord ws with him but hd deprted from Sul. 13 So Sul removed him from his presence, nd mde him commnder of thousnd; nd Dvid mrched out nd cme in, leding the rmy. 14 Dvid hd success in ll his undertkings; for the Lord ws with him. 15 When Sul sw tht he hd gret success, he stood in we of him. 16 But ll Isrel nd Judh loved Dvid; for it ws he who mrched out nd cme in leding them. Dvid Mrries Michl 17 Then Sul sid to Dvid, Here is my elder dughter Merb; I will give her to you s wife; only be vlint for me nd fight the Lord s bttles. For Sul thought, I will not rise hnd ginst him; let the Philistines del with him. 18 Dvid sid to Sul, Who m I nd who re my kinsfolk, my fther s fmily in Isrel, tht I should be son-in-lw to the king? 19 But t the time when Sul s dughter Merb should hve been given to Dvid, she ws given to Adriel the Meholthite s wife. 20 Now Sul s dughter Michl loved Dvid. Sul ws told, nd the thing plesed him. 21 Sul thought, Let me give her to him tht she my be snre for him nd tht the hnd of the Philistines my be ginst him. Therefore Sul sid to Dvid second time, c You shll now be my son-in-lw. 22 Sul commnded his servnts, Spek to Dvid in privte nd sy, See, the king is delighted with you, nd ll his servnts love you; now then, become the king s son-in-lw. 23 So Sul s servnts reported these words to Dvid in privte. And Dvid sid, Does it seem to you little thing to become the king s son-inlw, seeing tht I m poor mn nd of no repute? 24 The servnts of Sul told him, This is wht Dvid sid. 25 Then Sul sid, Thus shll you sy to Dvid, The king desires no mrrige present except hundred foreskins of the Philistines, tht he my be venged on the king s enemies. Now Sul plnned to mke Dvid fll by the hnd of the Philistines. 26 When his servnts told Dvid these words, Dvid ws well plesed to be the king s sonin-lw. Before the time hd expired, 27 Dvid rose nd went, long with his men, nd killed one hundred of the Philistines; nd Dvid brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, tht he might become the king s son-in-lw. Sul gve him his dughter Michl s wife. 28 But when Sul relized tht the Lord ws with Dvid, nd tht Sul s dughter Michl loved him, 29 Sul ws still more frid of Dvid. So Sul ws Dvid s enemy from tht time forwrd. 30 Then the commnders of the Philistines cme out to bttle; nd s often s they cme out, Dvid hd more success thn ll the servnts of Sul, so tht his fme becme very gret. Jonthn Intercedes for Dvid spoke with his son Jonthn nd with ll his servnts bout killing Dvid. But Sul s son Jonthn 19Sul took gret delight in Dvid. 2 Jonthn told Dvid, My fther Sul is trying to kill you; therefore be on gurd tomorrow morning; sty in secret plce nd hide yourself. 3 I will go out nd stnd beside my fther in the field where you re, nd I will spek to my fther bout you; if I lern ny- Gk Syr: Heb Gi

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