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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Question.
If David was a puny little boy, why would King Saul want him to wear his armor to fight Goliath? David said he didn’t have time to prove it, indicating he could wear it, but wasn’t comfortable on his first time out.
Saul was head and shoulders above others. If that’s the case, then David couldn’t have been as young or as small as some have described.
What say you?
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The Bible says that David was a youth. I think that would mean probably mid to late teens. He was also described as a stripling by Goliath, which is consistent with someone who is not yet a mature man. I don’t know of anything to indicate that he was not an alpha male though. I believe he was.
Another interesting side note is that Jonathan and David were great friends. It is often implied that they were of about the same age. They weren’t. Jonathan was much older. In fact he was probably old enough to be David’s father.
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