Whose Son Is This?
“Whose son is this?” (1 Sam. 17:55)
Saul’s question at the end of the David/Goliath story is perhaps the key theme of the whole story of David: Whose son is David? Who exactly is this man? Is he the son of Jesse the Bethlehemite? Will he turn out to be a son to Saul? Can he possibly be the son of God?
But Saul’s question should strike us as strange. Saul has not only just spoken to David before he defeated Goliath, but David has long been been playing the harp for Saul in his palace. But there’s more that makes Saul’s question so strange. After all, kings might easily forget the names of…
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