In the days of King Saul, a huge champion of the Philistines named Goliath challenged Israel to find a warrior willing to face him. Only David, a young shepherd boy, came forward. His only weapon was a sling and five pebbles, yet with a single stone David felled Goliath, and with the giant’s own sword struck off his head.

David’s stunning victory over the Philistines’ champion threw the enemy into disarray, but to the King’s son Jonathan, to the army and throughout the kingdom he was a hero. At first Saul was glad, but soon he began to begrudge David his popularity, and wonder if he was the usurper that he had long feared.

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