A prophet, a doomed king, and a shepherd boy — Israel learns what a king costs.
"For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the ______."
David and Goliath is chapter 17 — but David is anointed king in chapter 16, while Saul still wears the crown. The giant was never the main plot.
Hannah prayed so fervently for a son that the priest Eli assumed she was drunk. That son was Samuel, the last judge and the maker of kings.
Goliath stood 'six cubits and a span' — over nine feet in KJV measurement. David brought five smooth stones and needed one.
Saul was head and shoulders taller than any man in Israel — the people's idea of a king. 1 Samuel spends thirty-one chapters correcting that idea.