All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
"Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God"?  "Here David injected the first theological note in the whole narrative."[13]  How strange it is, that up to this point, the knowledge on Israel's part of the loving protection of God seems to have been forgotten altogether.  After forty days of those continued insults from Goliath, this seems even more incredible.  Evidently there burned in the heart of David a most unusual and confident faith in God; and that certainly must have been the secret of God's special blessing in that terrible encounter with Goliath.