What Is Courage?

David and goliath has become a cultural metaphor for whenever an under dog team plays a much better team, and they wint. But i want to suggest that there are some deep bible things at work in this passage that you might not see at first glance. More people in those days died of infection after the battle, from battle wounds than they did in the battle itself. The solit was awful. In modern warfare, we kill from a distance. In ancient times, you killed at arm's length.