1. 1 Samuel 17:46 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

How does David view his battle against Goliath?

1 Samuel 17:46 (ESV)

46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

Like the apostle Paul, David considered the battle against Goliath to be primarily spiritual and not physical (see Ephesians 6:1–24). His victory over Goliath would serve to confirm that the Lord is the true God.1