. . . and these weren't the animals David killed, these were the men under his direction. These guys were virtually fearless and took on the enemy with the same confidence that David took on Goliath when he was a teenager.
These two examples from Chapter 11 of I Chronicles show this clearly!
When David "said with longing" that he wanted a drink of water from the well inside Bethlehem, three of his mighty men went and got it for him. Pretty amazing . . . right? Well, it would be if you knew what they went through to get that water. To get to the well those three men had to "break through the camp of the Philistines." Three men up against the entire Philistines army . . . yeah . . . . Pretty amazing that they made it to the well alive not to mention back to David again WITH the water.
Another one of David's men named Benaiah "killed two lion-like heroes of Moab," went into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion which was in it (the amazing part to me is the snow . . . there was no easy climbing out of that with the added slipperiness of the snow), and killed an Egyptian of "great height, five cubits tall." Now get this, the Egyptian had a spear, and a long one at that, our man Benaiah only had a staff! What happens next is even more amazing them Benaiah attacking the guy with that staff. He goes down to where this Egyptian is, wrestles the very long and heavy spear out of his hand and kills the Egyptian with his own spear!
I wonder how a pastor would preach on this chapter or the topic of David's mighty men in general. I think I would like to hear that sermon and see how the pastor would take the lesson. Let me know if there is one out there and where I can find it.
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