The Bible In Paintings: DAVID AND GOLIATH

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

1st SAMUEL
CHAPTER 17

Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war. Saul and the Israelites drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines.

A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall. Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Choose a man and have him come down to me. If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.” On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.

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JAMES TISSOT
"The Defiance of Goliath"

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Now David was the son of Jesse. Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.

David ran to the battle lines and greeted his brothers. As he was talking with them, Goliath stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. David asked the men standing near him, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him. David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth.”

But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.” Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.

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JAMES TISSOT
"David Takes Saul the Presents from Jesse"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Saul Puts His Armor upon David"

Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I COME AGAINST YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW THAT THERE IS A GOD IN ISRAEL. ALL THOSE GATHERED HERE WILL KNOW THAT IT IS NOT BY SWORD OR SPEAR THAT THE LORD SAVES; FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD’S, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

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RON EMBLETON
"David and Goliath"

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C.E. BROCK
"David and Goliath"

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ARTHUR A. DIXON
"David and Goliath"

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WILLIAM HENRY MARGETSON
"David and Goliath"

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WIL OBERDIER
"With Just a Sling and a Stone"

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As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and….

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OSMAR SCHINDLER
"David und Goliath"

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EDGAR DEGAS
"David and Goliath"

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RICK MITTELSTEDT
"Fear No Evil"

To be continued…

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added
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[Hebrews 11:6]

1st SAMUEL
ISRAEL DEMANDS A KING, GETS SAUL
SAUL REJECTS JONATHAN, GOD REJECTS SAUL
DAVID THE SHEPHERD
SAMUEL ANOINTS DAVID
SAUL HIRES A HARPIST
G O L I A T H
DAVID AND GOLIATH
DAVID OR GOLIATH
DAVID'S BIG, FAT HEAD

[evets]

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them,
the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Yes, indeedy. Thanks.

[etabeta]

You find the best illustrations! I love the silver plate at #15. Here is an explanation on it: “This beautiful and exceptionally important plate (diameter 49.4 cm) is the largest of a set of nine showing scenes from the life of the Old Testament king David. Six belong to the Metropolitan Museum while three are in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. The group was discovered in 1902 in Karavás (northern Cyprus) sealed with a hoard of jewelry and gold, much of which is also now in the Metropolitan’s collection. Originally the smaller plates were arranged around the largest, the one shown here depicting David’s combat with Goliath. On the backs of all the plates are the control stamps of the emperor Heraclius, who may have commissioned them to celebrate his victory over the Persians in 628–29, which resulted in the recapture of Jerusalem. During the war, it is said that Heraclius fought the Persian general Razatis in single-handed combat, an event that is perhaps evoked in the depiction of David’s defeat of Goliath. Imperial imagery is present also on other plates, where ceremonial scenes from the biblical king’s life are set before the arcade of a palace. Their style is a conscious reference to classical art. The plates may have been ordered for display in the banquet hall of a member of the Byzantine aristocracy”.

https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/david-goliath

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Good Morning, Dan! :-)

[etabeta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHvte5feCPk&t=55s

[Hebrews 11:6]

And now we know, Professor Alba!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Mary-Lou! Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! ‘Tis grand, is it not? How glooooorious!

[InkStone]

Good morning to all =:^)

These are terrific Dan; thank you for posting these. I love the way you arrange the different themes of the Word, to the corresponding paintings.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Leon, I start with the text, then I find the art, and then I sort the art and drop it into the appropriate places in the text. And that is how the sausage is made.

[Big Red Badger]

Great prints,
Thanks!

[Big Red Badger]

“Dismayed and Terrified”,,,
.
Alot of That going around
right now and it’s readily
Apparent Our Goliath has
‘No Clothes!’
.
Fear Not, look to the Hills
Whence comes Your Salvation!

[Ciexyz]

The battle is the Lord’s. Amen!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Gets serious tomorrow....

[Big Red Badger]

That Plate Is Exquisite!
Thanks for the back story.

[Allegra]

I have really come to look forward to these posts. Thank you for putting all of this together.

[Hebrews 11:6]

You are so welcome. God has a multitude of blessings just for you, and this is one of the least.

[Big Red Badger]

Serpents Tounge,
Dragons Heart.
..
For Later.

[etabeta]

You are very welcome. When I like something, off I go to find more information.