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 my hand, and all the earth shall know that Israel has a God."

And David put his hand into his bag and drew forth a stone and put it into his sling and he slung it; and it struck the Philistine in the forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

And the army of Israel arose and shouted, and the Philistines became the servants of Israel, and great honors were heaped upon David.

Some years after this, at the death of Saul, David became king of Israel, but he never forgot his days upon the hills of Bethlehem, when he tended his father's sheep; and he was called the "Shepherd King."

After he had become king, David wrote many beautiful songs or psalms, and one of the most beautiful of them all is the twenty-third psalm, which shows that even when all the glory and honor of being a king were his, he loved to think of himself as one of the sheep over whom the Lord watched as a shepherd.

The Twenty-third Psalm

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pas