# Goliath of Gath — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral character guide

> Goliath of Gath in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Gath, Goliath, Myself

**First appearance:** 0014-goliath-of-gath

## Snapshot

The Philistine giant whose fury is quenched by death, his head carried in triumph and his armour left as a trophy in David's tent.

## Who they are

Goliath of Gath is the towering threat whose boasts and curses fill the battlefield until David's sling silences him. His defeat is not merely military but moral: fury quenched by death, the load of armour stripped and displayed as proof of divine favour. He matters because his fall establishes the pattern the collection returns to — the small, the young, the unlikely chosen to topple the proud.

## In the story

### [Goliath of Gath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/chapters/goliath-of-gath)

The Philistine giant who challenges the Israelite army and is slain by David.

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