Season 11 • Episode 4
1 Samuel 17 • Ephesians 6
The Rejected Armor
Story Time: The Valley of Elah, King Saul's Heavy Bronze Gear & David's Smooth Stones
David strips off King Saul's heavy bronze armor in the Valley of Elah and kneels at the brook for five smooth stones of the Spirit.
Theme Verse (1 Samuel 17:38–39): “Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, 'I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.' So David put them off.”
✦ Storytime Broadcast Player • S11E4
The Valley of Elah, King Saul's Heavy Bronze Gear & David's Smooth Stones
Main Characters in S11E4 (3)
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David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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King Saul
Israel's tall first monarch who cowered before Goliath in heavy bronze armor, hurled his spear at David and Jonathan in jealous rage, and broke Israel's oath with the Gibeonites.
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Goliath of Gath
The nine-foot-nine Philistine champion encased in 125 pounds of bronze scale armor who defied the armies of the living God morning and evening for forty days — and fell face down before a single smooth stone from David's sling.
✦ Inspect DossierOriginal Greek & Hebrew Root Words in S11E4
Greek • G3833
Panoplia — “Full Armor of God”
The complete, head-to-toe defensive and offensive battle array of a heavily armed soldier (Ephesians 6).
Greek • G4561
Sarx kai Aima — “Flesh and Blood”
Literally 'flesh and blood'—mortal human nature, physical human beings, and earthly strength.
Hebrew • H5493
Suwr — “Put Off / Reject”
To turn aside, depart from, strip off, and remove completely—used when David put off Saul's bronze armor.