Bill Yount: How David's Small Tent Turned Into a Tabernacle of Worship

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Sometimes prophetic people have to go by their gut. We don't know if this was what might have happened with David but being prophetic, I can at least entertain the prophetic idea that it MIGHT have happened this way.

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After David slew Goliath, the Scripture says, "David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent" (1 Samuel 17:54).

As we look at the armor of Goliath, I am persuaded to believe that David had to stretch out his tent a bit to hold it all.

Goliath was believed to be about ten feet tall, so quite a bit of armor was covering his body. 1 Samuel 17:5-7 says Goliath had a bronze helmet on his head (remember Goliath had a big head) and wore a coat of mail (a flexible body armor made of small overlapping metal rings). This coat weighing 5,000 shekels of bronze is believed to be about 125 pounds. He had a bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin (a light spear for throwing) across his shoulders. And the shaft of his huge spear was like a weaver's beam (approximately 3 inches in diameter) with the spear's head weighing 600 shekels, or about 15 pounds. And a shield bearer went before him. David probably took the bearer's shield also.

The Trophies Inside David's Tent Created the Atmosphere of Worship!

With all of Goliath's armor in David's tent he would never forget what the Lord had done for him and the nation of Israel. What I am about to express is my creative opinion and is not a definite word from God. But would you stretch your imagination with me to see what else may have been in David's tent causing it to be stretched into a tabernacle of thanksgiving and praise?

Besides Goliath's armor, I believe there were other trophies inside David's tent. Memories of the legacy of Israel's past history of crossing that Jordan river overflowing all of its banks lingered in his tent (Joshua 3:7). The testimony of those "stones of remembrance" was commanded by the Lord to be handed down through Israel's generations (Joshua 4:7). David heard about those stones of remembrance from his father. I believe that is why when David went to face Goliath, he got to thinking, "I'd better find me some stones."

So he went to a brook. Picking up that first stone, he relived that miracle crossing of Jordan and his faith began to rise. Picking up the second stone, he remembered that bear. That bear was gone, except for the bear skin rug. Reaching for the third stone, he remembered that beautiful lion rug on the floor of his tent. In the evening David would often lean back in his "bear" chair and rub his bare feet over the back of that lion's fur. What came to take him out was laying so sweetly under his feet!

Gripping that fourth stone, he remembered Goliath had a brother with three sons. He thought to himself, "I'd better make that five stones in case the family shows up!" And as he picked up that fifth stone, he saw Goliath's name written all over it and a shouting spell broke over him, "I feel a giant killing anointing coming down all over me; Saul, let me go kill him!" It was "faith gone wild!" I believe the four stones that David didn't have to use were kept in his tent also.

It seems reasonable to believe that David had to keep stretching the curtains of his dwelling place and lengthening his tent stakes to hold all the weapons and trophies the Lord was giving him through his enemies. David's tent became a tabernacle of ongoing praise and worship, making him a full-time worshipper and a part-time shepherd! Even in times of discouragement, his past victories caused him to believe he would "see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."

The Greatest Trophy in David's Tent

Last but not least, I believe David's biggest trophy in his tent that created such an atmosphere of violent worship was himself. It flowed out of him from knowing he was God's trophy of grace. Even later with David's failure with Bathsheba, knowing he was a great sinner, he knew he had a great Savior!

The Greatest Weapon in David's Armor

"Remembering" was perhaps the most powerful weapon David had as his armor. His remembrance made him a giant killer.

Remembering is perhaps a nation's most powerful weapon against her enemies. When a nation remembers her past victories, she rises again, becoming unstoppable. Even remembering our past tragedies, such as 9/11, brings forth a unity and resilience in our nation to overcome our next impossible odds.

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com

Bill Yount has been a member of Bridge of Life in Hagerstown, Maryland, for the past 33 years where he is now an elder and a home missionary. He is currently an advisor at large for Aglow International. Bill faithfully served in prison ministry at Mount Hope for 23 years and now travels full-time, both in the U.S. and internationally, ministering in churches and Aglow circles. "Humility and Humor" characterize his ministry as he brings forth a fresh word that is "in season," proclaiming the word of the Lord! The shofar (or ram's horn) is often used in his meetings, breaking the powers of darkness over regions, churches and households. The shofar represents God's breath blowing into the nostrils of His people, reviving them and awakening the lost. Many of God's messages, which Bill ministers prophetically, come out of his everyday life with his family and friends.