1 Samuel 17:37
David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.
Cross-references
1 Samuel 7:12 records Samuel setting up Ebenezer as a memorial that 'the LORD helped us' — David similarly recalls God's past help to trust for Goliath.
Psalm 77:11 speaks of remembering God's wonders — David here remembers God's past deliverance (lion and bear) to trust for the present.
In 2 Corinthians 1:10, Paul echoes David's threefold confidence: God who delivered, delivers, and will deliver.
In Deuteronomy 3:21, Moses uses past victories over kings to encourage Joshua — the same logic David uses here recalling lion and bear.
In Joshua 10:25, Joshua commands courage based on God's past victories — mirroring David's confidence from past deliverance.
In Psalm 91:13, the righteous trample lion and serpent — directly echoing David's victory over the lion and bear as a type of God's protection.
In Daniel 3:17, three men express the same confident trust that God can deliver from a powerful ruler — just as David trusts God against Goliath.
Daniel 6:22 recounts God's angel shutting lions' mouths — a deliverance like David's from lion and bear, but as a past event rather than a statement of faith.
Psalm 18:17 says God delivered David from his strong enemy — a similar assurance of divine rescue as David expresses before facing Goliath.
In 2 Corinthians 1:9, Paul learns to rely on God who raises the dead, paralleling David's trust in God's deliverance from deadly peril.
In 2 Timothy 4:18, Paul expresses the same future deliverance confidence as David's 'will deliver me'.