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The Israelites were always fighting with the Philistines because they were one of the tribes on their borders
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Only then did they realize Pharaoh had changed his mind about letting them go and was chasing them
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The Philistines giant Goliath was from the Gath family.
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The Israelites were afraid of Goliath but David killed him and they had a great victory
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David was becoming very popular with the people and this made Saul very angry
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Although David and Saul's son Jonathan were great friend, David left and hid in the mountains because Saul had threatened to kill him
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When David was in the mountains hiding he wrote a lot of the Psalms
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Eventually he and Saul reconciled just before Saul died
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David became king and was to build the temple
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He never did build the temple that was left to Solomon