1 Samuel – Saul and David
Chapter 17
17:1-58 Make up and act out a short dramatic story about these events.
17:1-3 Put this story into your own words. Who wanted to fight with whom?
17:4-7 Draw or paint a picture of Goliath. Write a
17:8-11 Put this story into your own words. What do you think about what Goliath said?
17:12-15 Write about Jesse and his 8 sons. What do you learn about Saul? What do you learn about David ?
17:16-24 Put this story into your own words. What did Jesse tell David to do? What did he do? What did he learn? What do you think about that?
17:25-27 What did David find out? What did David say about that? What do you think about that?
17:28-31 What were the results of what David had said in 17:26? What do you think about David’s oldest brother Eliab? What do you think about David asking a lot of people the same question?
17:32-33 What do you learn from this conversation? Why did David and Saul have such different ideas about what is possible?
17:34-37a Put this story into your own words. What do you learn about David? What is David’s attitude to God? What do you think about that?
17:37b-40 Put this story into your own words. What do you learn from this story? What do you find out about David from the way that he behaves?
17:41-44 Put this story into your own words. What do you learn about Goliath? Who do you know that is like Goliath?
17:45-47 Put this story into your own words. What do you learn about David? What is David’s attitude to the
17:48-51 Put this story into your own words. What do you think about that?
17:52-54 Put this story into your own words. What do you think about all that?
17:55-58 Put this story into your own words. Saul did not know who David was. Why might that be? (See 16:19-23; 17:15, 31-39.) What do you think about all that?