it represented His creative power to accomplish the impossible! Now it should make more sense why David picked up five stones. David needed the supernatural power that comes with the divine breath in order to punish Goliath, the wicked blasphemer, to restore honor to the divine name, and to bring shalom to the chaos. This is what the letter hei—the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the number five—represents in Hebraic thought. In other words, David needed the hei, the divine empowerment of