大卫

• 单纯的信心
• 信心的操练

大卫所受的苦难和试炼

• 侍奉扫罗
• 扫罗想杀害大卫
• 扫罗追杀大卫

扫罗

• 参杂的信心
• 悔而不改

撒母耳記上17:26-50

26大卫问站在旁边的人说：有人杀这非利士人，除掉以色列人的耻辱，怎样待他呢？这未受割礼的非利士人是谁呢？竟敢向永生神的军队骂阵麽？
27百姓照先前的话回答他说：有人能杀这非利士人，必如此如此待他。
28大卫的长兄以利押听见大卫与他们所说的话，就向他发怒，说：你下来做甚麽呢？在旷野的那几只羊，你交托了谁呢？我知道你的骄傲和你心里的恶意，你下来特为要看争战！
29大卫说：我做了甚麽呢？我来岂没有缘故麽？
30大卫就离开他转向别人，照先前的话而问；百姓仍照先前的话回答他。
31有人听见大卫所说的话，就告诉了扫罗；扫罗便打发人叫他来。
32大卫对扫罗说：人都不必因那非利士人胆怯。你的仆人要去与那非利士人战斗。
33扫罗对大卫说：你不能去与那非利士人战斗；因为你年纪太轻，他自幼就作战士。
34大卫对扫罗说：你仆人为父亲放羊，有时来了狮子，有时来了熊，从群中衔一只羊羔去。
35我就追赶他，击打他，将羊羔从他口中救出来。他起来要害我，我就揪着他的胡子，将他打死。
36你仆人曾打死狮子和熊，这未受割礼的非利士人向永生神的军队骂阵，也必像狮子和熊一般。
37大卫又说：耶和华救我脱离狮子和熊的爪，也必救我脱离这非利士人的手。扫罗对大卫说：你可以去罢！耶和华必与你同在。
38扫罗就把自己的战衣给大卫穿上，将铜盔给他戴上，又给他穿上铠甲。
39大卫把刀跨在战衣外，试试能走不能走；因为素来没有穿惯，就对扫罗说：我穿戴这些不能走，因为素来没有穿惯。於是摘脱了。
40他手中拿杖，又在溪中挑选了五块光滑石子，放在袋里，就是牧人带的囊里；手中拿着甩石的机弦，就去迎那非利士人。
41非利士人也渐渐地迎着大卫来，拿盾牌的走在前头。
42非利士人观看，见了大卫，就藐视他；因为他年轻，面色光红，容貌俊美。
43非利士人对大卫说：你拿杖到我这里来，我岂是狗呢？非利士人就指着自己的神咒诅大卫。
44非利士人又对大卫说：来罢！我将你的肉给空中的飞鸟、田野的走兽吃。
45大卫对非利士人说：你来攻击我，是靠着刀枪和铜戟；我来攻击你，是靠着万军之耶和华的名，就是你所怒骂带领以色列军队的神。
46今日耶和华必将你交在我手里。我必杀你，斩你的头，又将非利士军兵的尸首给空中的飞鸟、地上的野兽吃，使普天下的人都知道以色列中有神；
47又使这众人知道耶和华使人得胜，不是用刀用枪，因为争战的胜败全在乎耶和华。他必将你们交在我们手里。
48非利士人起身，迎着大卫前来。大卫急忙迎着非利士人，往战场跑去。
49大卫用手从囊中掏出一块石子来，用机弦甩去，打中非利士人的额，石子进入额内，他就仆倒，面伏於地。
50这样，大卫用机弦甩石，胜了那非利士人，打死他；大卫手中却没有刀。

1 Samuel 17:26-50

26 David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?”

27 And these men gave David the same reply. They said, “Yes, that is the reward for killing him.”

28 But when David’s oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry. “What are you doing around here anyway?” he demanded. “What about those few sheep you’re supposed to be taking care of? I know about your pride and deceit. You just want to see the battle!”

29 “What have I done now?” David replied. “I was only asking a question!” 30 He walked over to some others and asked them the same thing and received the same answer. 31 Then David’s question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him.
David Kills Goliath

32 “Don’t worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I’ll go fight him!”

33 “Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”

34 But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father’s sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, 35 I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. 36 I have done this to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God! 37 The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”

Saul finally consented. “All right, go ahead,” he said. “And may the Lord be with you!”

38 Then Saul gave David his own armor—a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. 39 David put it on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before.

“I can’t go in these,” he protested to Saul. “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off again. 40 He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and put them into his shepherd’s bag. Then, armed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.

41 Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, 42 sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. 43 “Am I a dog,” he roared at David, “that you come at me with a stick?” And he cursed David by the names of his gods. 44 “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.

45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! 47 And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”

48 As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him. 49 Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with only a sling and a stone, for he had no sword.