So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone — the verb *va'yigbor David*, David prevailed, is presented in simple past tense, the outcome announced as accomplished fact. The *qarela uva'even*, sling and stone, become the instruments of a victory that surpasses all military prediction. The simplicity of these tools—not forged in any smithy, not shaped by any craft, but gathered from a stream—embodies the principle that victory belongs not to human elaboration but to divine will acting through humble means.

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