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He could have had no other purpose at that age to travel to Jerusalem except to fulfill
a mission related to the head of the giant. We don’t know for certain what David did
in Jerusalem, but we can draw some conclusions by what we read. The head of the
giant has no value or use to David, unless he intends to put it on pike and start trouble.
And as it is a head – that is, still with flesh and hair and parts, we must assume it won’t
last in its present state for long. Third, we never hear mention of it again, so David
must have disposed of it in Jerusalem. We conclude he buried it on the Lord’s instruc-
tions, else wise, he could have just thrown it away anywhere.
TO MAINTAIN
FRESHNESS
KEEP IN A
COOL DRY PLACE
That wasn’t to be David’s last encounter with giants.
Jos 13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,
who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them
out.
Jos 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side
of the Jebusite; the same [is] Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the
mountain that [lieth] before the valley of Hinnom westward, which [is] at the end of
the valley of the giants northward:
