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Goliath
Philistine champion defeated by David.
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champion from , described as roughly nine feet tall and clad in massive bronze armor, who challenges Israel's armies to single combat in the Valley of Elah for forty days. The young shepherd , scorning Saul's armor, kills him with a sling-stone to the forehead and beheads him with his own sword, sparking Israel's rout of the Philistines. The encounter becomes the defining image of David's rise and is referenced in later Philistine campaigns where his brothers and kinsmen are also slain.
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