Changes in David

This is not a bible study like i would normally do but just observations I've noticed lately reading through 1 Samuel.  I just wanted to share them with you all.  In chapter 13: 19 we see this "There were no blacksmiths in the land of Israel in those days.  The Philistines wouldn't allow them for fear they would make swords and spears for the Hebrews."  It says later in verse 22 that Saul and Jonathan were the only 2 in the land to even own swords.  Follow me on a journey here of the army and changing of David into a warrior.  In chapter 14 still the only two swords belong to Saul and Jonathan and it never mentions the return of blacksmiths.  That's part of what made the David vs Goliath story for me this time around.  In chapter 16 Samuel anoints this scrawny shepherd boy David as king after God rejects Saul.  Then Goliath challenges the Israelites to a fight.  For forty days he does this.  The people of Israel run and hide.  Now watch this David gets his first chance to hold a sword and armor and it belongs to Saul.  David can't even move in the armor.  Then you step into David's armory.  17:39 "The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine."  So after the armor and sword he goes and picks up his weapons a shepherds staff, five smooth stones and a slingshot.  In pro-wrestling this is like Rey Mysterio vs Brock Lesnar.  David's got five rocks and how many did he need? 1. Uno.  Single digit.  Rich Mullins explored this story in his song What Trouble are Giants.  "Well now the king of his country he didn't trust in him much and so to David's alarm he tried to fit him in his armor but the thing was so heavy David couldn't stand up.  So he left it by the river where he gathered five smooth stones.  I guess its safe to say he figured he wasn't going out alone."  Then check out 1 Samuel 17:45-47 where David throws down the gauntlet.  Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. 46“This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD’S and He will give you into our hands.”

First sword David gets he takes it from Goliath.  Then here's the odd thing.  Still a lowly shepherd in chapter 18 David gets made into a commander of 1,000 men.  Talk about your strange military promotions.  Shepherd, giant killer, harp player, song writer, poet, warrior, king, man after God's own heart.  Greg Blankenship once told me and i may get this wrong so forgive me if i do Greg.  "You get David's heart and passion in a most unique way."  King David led an awesome life.