Quotes about Conflict

And Israel and the Philistines arrayed in formation against each other.

And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.

Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.

Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,

When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.

When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,