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After Samuel called Jesse’s family to sacrifice, the prophet looked at one of his sons, Eliab, thinking this was surely the L<small>ORD</small>’s anointed.<ref>I Sam. 16:1, 5, 6.</ref> “But the L<small>ORD</small> said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the L<small>ORD</small> seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the L<small>ORD</small> looketh on the heart.”<ref>1 Sam. 16:7, 10.</ref> Not until Jesse’s youngest son, David, stood before Samuel, did the L<small>ORD</small> tell him, “Arise, anoint him: for this is he.” When Samuel anointed David, “the spirit of the L<small>ORD</small> came upon David from that day forward.”<ref>1 Sam. 16:12, 13.</ref>

I Samuel 17 records how, as a young shepherd boy, he single-handedly slew the Philistine giant Goliath. Prior to this encounter, David had killed a lion and a bear that had taken a lamb out of his father’s flock. He slew both animals with his fist, by the force of the Kundalini. When he went to battle the giant Philistine, David was offered King Saul’s armor: a brass helmet, a coat of mail, and a sword. But David rejected the armor because he was not skilled in its use. He chose instead five smooth stones and his sling.

In the Biblical account of David and Goliath, Goliath represents David’s [[dweller-on-the-threshold]]. Before David could be crowned king of Israel, the Great Law required that he slay Goliath, the champion of the Philistines. This was a spiritual initiation. God initiated the soul of David that he might prove himself before Goliath and the Philistines and before King Saul and his people.<ref>I Sam. 17:1–37.</ref>