So they defeated them by God's leave. Thus, David killed Goliath, and God gave him the kingship and the wisdom and taught him what He wished. Had it not been for God pushing the people to challenge one another, then the earth would have long been corrupted. But God has done favor over the worlds.
Translation endnotes
[2:251] The Old Testament gives contradictory information on this story. According to 1 Samuel 17:4, 50-51, it is David who kills the giant enemy named Goliath, while according to 2 Samuel 21:19, it is Elhanan who does the killing. Biblical scholars who believe in the Bible verbatim, wish for us to believe that there were two different giants called Goliath, simultaneously. Interestingly, both stories are similar and David appears in both. Some Biblical scholars, however, accept the existence of a textual error.