Goliath was from somewhere else

Suddi told me once that he was descended from the house of David, so I asked if he had heard of a story about David that involved a giant.

S: You speak of Goliath. It is said that Goliath was the head of the army of… I believe it was the Philistines. And the people of… let me think, who was the king? I believe it was Saul who was king, and they were at war. And every day the Israeli army would go out and be defeated and many men would die, because of this leader Goliath. He would go out and he would challenge them all and would win.

D : Was he really a giant?

S: He was larger than most men would be considered. He was with the Philistines, but he was not a Philistine. In other words, he was of somewhere else. And it is said that David decided that he would take him on and would slay him, and he did. ‘Tis said that he used his sling. That he was a shepherd and had much prowess with it killing wolves. It keeps the wolves and jackals away from the sheep if you are a good shot. So you do not lose many lambs. David was just from the threshold of manhood. I believe he was fourteen. It was something that he had been told that he would be able to do. It is not hard to defeat someone like that when you are in the right and they are in the wrong. In the case of that, it is better to slay one man to stop killing, than to let one man kill so many. So it is written.

Jesus and the Essenes