It is most satisfactory to find, as the history of the Israelites unfolds itself, the same indications of truth and accuracy still continuing to present themselves—the same signatures (as it were) of a subscribing witness of credit, impressed on every sheet as we turn it over in its order. The glory of Israel is now brought before us: David comes upon the scene, destined to fill the most conspicuous place in the annals of his country, and furnishing, in the details of his long and eventful life, a series of arguments such as we are in search of, decisive, I think, of the reality of his story, and of the fidelity with which it is told. With these I shall be now for some time engaged.
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Author: John James Blunt
Keywords: Goliath, Goliath of Gath, Goliath the giant, giant, giants, sons of Anak, Anakim, anakims
Bible reference(s): Num 13:33, Josh. 11:21-22, 1Sa 17:4
Source: Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings of the Old & New Testament (London: John Murray, 1869).
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