David and Goliath

One of the most famous of Bible stories, although the theme is constant throughout Scripture: in weakness there is great strength, for God supplies. Here's the literal ancestor of Our Lord Jesus Christ, red-cheeked and fair of face, a shepherd in the Holy Land. So much for the racists who criticise the depictions of Christ as 'European.'

"But David told Saul, 'My lord, I used to feed my father’s flock; and if lion or bear came and carried off one of my rams, I would go in pursuit, and get the mastery, and snatch the prey from their jaws. Did they threaten me, I would catch them by the throat and strangle them; that was my way of killing them. Lion or bear, my lord, I would slay them, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall have no better lot than theirs. Let me go out and save the honour of Israel; shall an uncircumcised Philistine defy the army of the living God?' 

'The Lord,' said David, 'who protected me against lion and bear, will protect me against this Philistine.' 'Why then,' said Saul, 'go, and the Lord be with thee.' Then he made David wear his own armour, put a helmet of bronze on his head, and a breastplate round him; and David, as he girded on a sword over his armour, tried whether he had strength to walk in this unwonted array. 'Nay,' he told Saul, 'I cannot walk, so clad; it was never my wont.' So he disarmed, and took nothing but the staff he ever carried, and five smooth stones, which he picked out from the river-bed and put in his shepherd’s wallet, and a sling in his hand; and so he went out to meet the Philistine. 

The Philistine, with his armour-bearer going before him, came ever nearer on his way, and looked at David with contempt; here was a boy, red-cheeked and fair of face. 'What,' he asked, 'dost thou take me for a dog, that thou comest to meet me with a staff?' And he cursed David in the name of his gods." - I Kings, 17: 34-43