Theme: The LORD’s King is the Good Shepherd; be confident in the victory that Christ has won

Other helpful passages:
Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel…Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss. – Judges 20:14, 16

But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” – 1 Samuel 8:19-20

And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people…“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince[a] over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me.” – 1 Samuel 9:2, 16

And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they…And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The LORD is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.’” – 1 Kings 20:23, 28