Question: What offer did Goliath make to the Israelites?
Answer: To fight their best warrior and the loser’s people would become subjects of the other's. (I Samuel 17:9)
Comments: Twice a day for forty day, Goliath, a massive the Philistine champion, laid down the gauntlet to the Israelites. He challenged the Israelites to produce a representative of their own to decide the outcome of the battle in single combat. In single combat, the mightiest warrior of one army would fight the mightiest warrior of the opposing army as a substitute for all-out war. Goliath's proposal went unanswered for forty days.
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, "Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me." (I Samuel 17:8, NASB)
In a now legendary battle, the future king of Israel, David, defeated Goliath with a shot from a slingshot.
Note: This drawing and watercolour, "Goliath cursing David" by William Blake (1757-1827), hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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