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When David slew Goliath, he took his armor and put them in his tent (1Samuel 17:54). The spear staff was described as being like a weaver’s beam, and the spear head (very heavy) in 1Samuel 17:7. The sword and spear were obviously impressive; a trophy. When David was fleeing from Saul, he went to the priests at Nob for food. When they gave him bread he requested a sword. The priest gave him Goliath's sword. David said "there is none like it, give it me" 1Samuel 21:9. Notice carefully where it was when the priest fetched it ---- behind the ephod. The sword had become a sacred national possession for Israel. We can well guess that the spear was the same. Many are familiar in history with the fact that a large portion of the tribe of Dan had moved through Europe and into what is now Ireland. Scripture says " . . . why did Dan remain in ships?" (Judges 5:17). Dan is missing in Revelation seven's listing of the twelve tribes. In the 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) under "Ireland, Legendary Origins; Early History" we find people called the "Tuatha de Danan" (tribe of Dan) had migrated into Ireland having with them the Stone of Destiny (Jacob's pillar stone). There was also taken some of the king's daughters, Jeremiah 41:10; 43:6 , princesses, descendents of the house of David, through which God kept his promise to David to always have descendants on a throne over Israel. The article also mentions Scythian warriors came there. In Colossians 3:11, we find the Scythians were a major group of people. In a dichotomy, they were the circumcised Israelites as opposed to the Romans (the King James Version Bible should read "foreigner" instead of "barbarian") and a major part of the Parthian empire. Parthians were present at the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:9). Study of history shows that many of the Parthian-Scythian peoples were part of the "lost" ten tribes of Israel -- the northern kingdom after the split when Solomon's son, Rehoboam, became king and the northern ten tribes seceded, setting up capital at Samaria. Some of the ten northern tribes left Palestine earlier and others were taken captive by Assyria and carried away. Very interesting in the Encyclopedia article we find these Tuatha de Danan and Scythian people with genealogical records dating to Noah. These brought with them "the sacred sword and spear" (ibid.). These are very likely the Israelites' trophies of Goliath's sword and spear. |
