Take the 2-minute tour ×  From 1 Samuel 17:  23 As he was
talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath,
stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and
David heard it. 24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all
fled from him in great fear. 25 Now the Israelites had been
saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out
to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who
kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and
will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.” 26 David asked the
men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills
this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is
this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of
the living God?” 27 They repeated to him what they had been
saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who
kills him.”  I was curious if we are given any clue, in this
passage or later passages, how much motivation to fight Goliath
was due to financial a