Chapter 5
Brothers' Scorn
David's older brothers dismiss his eagerness to fight Goliath, seeing him as an unqualified boy. He faces their doubt and the soldiers' disbelief.
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The air on the battlefield was thick with the smell of dust and fear. David, his heart thrumming a nervous rhythm against his ribs, pushed through the throng of Israelite soldiers. They were a grim, anxious sea of men, their faces etched with a weariness that went beyond the day's heat. He had been sent by his father, Jesse, to bring provisions to his older brothers, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah, and to check on their welfare. But as he approached the
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