scene. He has responsibilities: he leaves “the sheep with a keeper” and gathers up the supplies “and took, and went” (17:20). The proliferation of verbs in the chapter—David doesn’t just go, he takes first—both give the story drive and slow it down, permitting the audience to savor every detail and making this savoring of the details unleash the significance of the conquest of the armed man by the boy. Now we see the opposed, left-to-right armies again, as David observes the scene for the first time: