David slays Goliath in Single Combat. Artist: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Engraver: Z. Scheckel, inscription lower right. Source: Die Bibel in Bildern, Plate 92. Click on image to enlarge it.
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. [1 Samuel 17: 49-51; King James Bible]
Details and related illustrations
- Philistine soldiers and landscape (upper right)
- Goliath's head and David’s stone
- David
- David catches sight of Bathsheba bathing
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Bibliography
Die Bibel in Bildern [Picture Bible] von Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Leipzig: Georg Wigands, 1860. Hathi Digital Trust Library online version of a copy in the Columbia University Library. Web. 25 June 2016.
Last modified 30 June 2016