(Female narrator reads title) (fun music plays)
So part of God's story is about
two guys named David and Saul. (walking footsteps)
It begins like this.
You may have heard of David before.
The little shepherd boy who stood up to the massive warrior, (sword clanking)
Goliath and won. (thud)
But that isn't the whole story.
In fact, that's really only a part of it.
The rest of the story starts with a man named Saul. (glass shattering)
See, God wasn't very happy with Saul, Israel's first king.
The people of Israel had begged God's prophet, Samuel,
to give them a king, so they could be more like other nations.
God warned the Israelites they would regret it, (boom)
but gave them Saul as their king.
And like anyone, King Saul wasn't perfect and soon started to mess up,
disobeying God and leading Israel away from him.
And that's where our friend David comes in. (footsteps)
God wanted a new king to replace Saul, so he sent Samuel to a man named Jesse. (dink)
Jesse showed Samuel his eldest sons, big and strong men.
Samuel thought for sure that one of these impressive boys was to be king,
but God had other plans. (boom)
God told Samuel to find another son, (footsteps)
so Jesse brought in little David.
Even though David was a little scrawny
and had a smelly job of taking care of sheep, (sheep baaing)
God told Samuel to look at more than his appearance.
Samuel obeyed and anointed David, God's special way of choosing people.
When David was anointed, the good spirit that had been helping Saul rule
left him, (woosh) and was replaced with
a new spirit that wouldn't leave him alone. (boing, boing, boing)
Imagine there was a bee buzzing around in your brain that you couldn't do a thing about.
That may be what it was like for Saul. (buzzing)
Since Saul was going a little crazy, (boing, boing, boing)
his servants had David, a great harp player, (zoom)
come to the palace and play music to calm the king. (harp melody)
Now one day, David came to bring his brothers, (footsteps)
who were working as soldiers, some lunch.
What started out as a lunch delivery, soon turned into
one of the most famous stories in the Bible,
where tiny David (helicopter sound, woosh)
took down the massive warrior, Goliath, with a single stone. (thud and grunt)
After this, David was like a famous rock star.
In fact, (footsteps) David was so popular,
that Saul worried people would start thinking David should be king instead.
(arrows whooshing) Saul began to try and kill (David),
sending him on dangerous quests where any normal guy would have died,
and even threw a spear at his head once. (harp music, thwoosh, boing)
Eventually, things got so bad that Jonathan, Saul's son (footsteps)
who David had become great friends with, helped David escape. (footsteps)
David wandered for years trying to stay out of Saul's grasp. (footsteps and crickets chirping)
Twice, Saul even got so close that David had the opportunity to kill him.
But David refused to kill the King in charge. (scratching)
David continued to flee from Saul for years,
and without God's blessing, (arrows wooshing) Saul's army was losing to the Philistines.
Soon enough, Saul's army had been defeated. Jonathan had died and
the Philistines were now chasing them. (whoop, thud)
(crown clanking) Saul was so afraid of capture
that he chose to fall on his own sword instead of letting the Philistines catch him.
When David heard of Jonathan and Saul's death, he went out and avenged them.
And with Saul dead, David returned to Israel
and at last took his place as God's new king. (footsteps)
And that's the story of David and Saul.
So in case you missed it, here's the quick version.
God made Saul king.
Saul disobeyed God.
God said he would take the kingdom away from Saul and chose David.
David became popular.
Saul became fearful of David.
David had to run away.
David wandered for years.
Saul died.
David avenged Saul.
David took over as Israel's chosen King.
And that's a part of God's Story.
(music fades)