The giant Egyptian called for his armor bearer to bring him the rest of his things.
“This is not right.” Benaiah’s thought was starting to turn into a fire at the bottom of his sternum somewhere behind his belly.
Then it happened.
Benaiah felt outside of himself and very alone.
Except for a man across the crowd who was looking right at him.
All of the noise of the fight area was gone, all sense of time, all sense of his five senses, no noise, no smells, no heat, no dust and all the while the man across the way was looking right at him.
Benaiah looked back at the fight promoter and he was shaking his head in agreement and the giant Egyptian and the armor bearer were joining the the other four men who were left and moving in on the peculiar slave.
Benaiah wanted to move but was unable to. He was awake. He could see everything happening. The man across the way was still just staring at him and then he heard it, deep within himself, he heard it.
“Benaiah, I have come.”
Benaiah had a terror run through him as never before and if he could have he would have fallen down as if dead.
“Benaiah, as with your ancestors I have come down to rescue you from the Egyptians.”
It burned in his heart… those words, and his studies of scripture especially the “Shemot” became alive and loud within him.
The fight had ensued and Benaiah was still frozen except now he could see The Hittite looking at him as if he knew something strange was happening to Benaiah.
The peculiar slave had dispatched two of the four men from before and when he went against the giant he seemed to bounce off and for the first time a look of fear came across his face. He had never seen anything like this Egyptian.
As he bounced off he quickly evaded the next attack and positioned himself over his buried staff and he kicked the sand away and brought the stick up in time to knock out the armor bearer.
The roar of the crowd was deafening!
At that instant Benaiah became aware of everything as he had never been before and God said, “I will be with you.”
“Take this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it.”
He realized the man across the way was the angel of the Lord and Benaiah knew what he had to do.
At that instant of revelation he was made alive and with a rush of senses he was once again able to hear the fight scene and could feel he was to be a part of it now.
At that he leaped in between the attackers and the peculiar slave and raising his hands he called a halt to the fight.
Everyone was amazed, except of course The Hittite.
Benaiah stood tall and brave and for some reason the combatants stopped. The Egyptian with his spear, the peculiar slave with his staff and the others trembling with excitement and confusion.
Benaiah called for the fight promoter.
“What now!”, he bellowed.
Benaiah answered, “A life for a life.”
“I will fight the Egyptian for the life of your slave.”
That got everyone’s attention, even The Hittite.
“Bah! You can’t cover the wager being as young as you are, and those few sheep you are tending do not add up to much!
So what are you doing?”
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