Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. (1 Samuel 15:3 KJV)

Once again, the Lord tells someone to slaughter all living things in a region. Saul kills all the people and most of the livestock, but saves the best for a sacrifice to the Lord But since He’s not obeyed precisely, He gets angry. He regrets his decision to make Saul king, and conspires with Samuel to find a replacement in secret. Why in secret? They never explain.

After running through all of Jesse’s sons, He picks the youngest, David. But they don’t tell anyone, and David goes back to shepherding. When Israel and the Philistines get to battling, Goliath mocks all the girly men of the Israeli army who are afraid to fight him. David (the once and future king) brings food for his brothers and hears the taunts, and challenges Goliath. He gets a pretty bad-ass speech — I think it was the backup speech for Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. (1 Samuel 17:46 KJV)

And that he does. He smites Goliath with the rock, and decapitates him with his own sword. Pretty vicious.

Next: 1 Samuel 18-20.