"LET NO ONE LOSE HEART BECAUSE OF HIM" - Continue

 David spoke these encouraging words to the king about Goliath: "Let no one lose heart because of him." Saul and his men had indeed lost heart because of Goliath. Perhaps they had made the natural mistake of comparing themselves to that huge man, picturing how they came up to the man's midriff or chest. They imagined that armored giant making short work of them. But David did not think that way. As we see, he saw a problem in a completely different light. So he offered to fight Goliath himself. - 1 SAMUEL 17:32.

Saul objected: "You are not able to go fight against this Philistine, for you but a boy, and he has been a soldier from his youth." Was David really a child? No, but he was too young to join the army, and he had been youthful looking. But David was already known as a valiant fighter and may have been in his late teens by this time. - 1 SAMUEL 16:18; 17:33.

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