David Kills Goliath

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning

≈ 1022 BC (placed between the dated events around it)

Traditional reckoning

1067 BC

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Where is it in the Bible?

• 1 Samuel 17:1–58

Who was there, and where?

• David
• Goliath

Which verses connect to 1 Samuel 17:1?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

1. Joshua 15:355 votes

   Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

2. 1 Samuel 13:54 votes

   Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

3. 1 Chronicles 11:134 votes

   He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At a place with a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.

4. 2 Chronicles 28:184 votes

   The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.

5. Joshua 10:10–113 votes

   And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah. As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

6. Judges 3:33 votes

   the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.