And David came to the encampment as the army was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry — David arrives as the dramatic moment peaks, the armies advancing toward each other with *terua'h* (shout, trumpet blast), the sound of imminent combat. The timing is providential; David steps into the valley precisely when the confrontation is about to become violent, when individual heroism is about to become necessary. The *teruah* itself is a cultic term, used in the sounding of the shofar during holy war; the war cry invokes divine presence even as it signals human determination.

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