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salvation; Your gentleness has made me great. You enlarged my path under me; So my feet did not
slip. I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them; Neither did I turn back again till they were
destroyed. And I have destroyed them and wounded them, so that they could not rise; They have
fallen under my feet. For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under
me those who rose against me.

David’s victory was not in his own strength or prowess as a warrior. His victory was in his faith in
God. By faith David slew the giant Goliath.

I Samuel 17:45-47
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come
to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. This
day Yahweh will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head
from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the
sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that
all this assembly may know that Yahweh does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is
Yahweh's and He will give you into our hands.”

David with the Head of Goliath

One fact observed from the testimony of Scripture is that no giant is ever described as righteous. The
giants are always the adversaries of God’s people. Yahweh Himself declared a war of annihilation
against them. Why was this so? The answer lies in understanding the unique ancestry of the giants.
The race of giants were the spawn of fallen angels who engaged in sexual intercourse with women.
I realize the paternity of the giants is greatly debated among Christians. Many deny that angels are
even capable of cohabiting with women and producing offspring. Consequently, I will be patient and
thorough in setting forth the Biblical evidence supporting this view.

We read earlier that the Anakim, who were giants, were a subset of the giant race known as Nephilim.