{"id":37008,"date":"2022-09-13T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-old-was-david-when-he-killed-goliath\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:20:08","slug":"how-old-was-david-when-he-killed-goliath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-old-was-david-when-he-killed-goliath\/","title":{"rendered":"How old was David when he killed Goliath?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The actual age of David when he slew Goliath is not specified in the scriptures. However, there are certain scriptures that indicate he was a \u201cyouth.\u201d The word \u2018youth\u2019 is further explained below along with a consideration of David\u2019s size to help us arrive at an educated guess as to David\u2019s age when he slew Goliath.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s physique.\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0Since David came from the same parents (or at least the same father) as his physically-impressive brother, Eliab, David may very well have grown to a similar impressive stature.<\/p>\n

Saul\u2019s argument to David.<\/em>\u00a0 When David was offended by the Philistine’s words against the living God, he volunteered to fight the giant. Saul’s reaction to David’s offer is telling. Notice that he did not claim that David was too small, although even the tallest people today would be dwarfed by Goliath. Instead, Saul said, \u201cYou are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him;\u00a0for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth<\/strong>\u201d (1 Samuel 17:33). Saul tried to dissuade David by recognizing David’s youthful age and Goliath’s seasoned experience. The Hebrew word translated as \u201cyouth\u201d (\u05e0\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05e8, na’ar) can refer to any age from an infant (Moses in\u00a0Exodus 2:6) to someone old enough to lead a military coup (Absalom in\u00a02 Samuel 18:32).<\/p>\n

Some suggest that the slaying of Goliath may have been chronologically prior to the days in which David played the harp for Saul, but there are problems with this argument. First and foremost,\u00a01 Samuel 17:15\u00a0states, \u201cBut David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.\u201d So David regularly served Saul\u00a0before\u00a0his encounter with Goliath. Also,\u00a01 Samuel 18:2, which immediately followed the battle with Goliath, states, \u201cSaul took him [David] that day, and would not let him go home to his father’s house anymore.\u201d Finally, chapter 16 shows that Saul and David were introduced to each other and that David became his armor bearer as seen in verse 21, whereas chapter 17 shows no such introduction, indicating they knew already knew each other<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The actual age of David when he slew Goliath is not specified in the scriptures. However, there are certain scriptures that indicate he was a \u201cyouth.\u201d The word \u2018youth\u2019 is further explained below along with a consideration of David\u2019s size to help us arrive at an educated guess as to David\u2019s age when he slew … Continue reading “How old was David when he killed Goliath?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}