The giant's taunts made the army of the Lord change the subject. They sat cowering around their fires talking food, weather, and the scandals in King Saul's court. They wondered, "When, how will our God come to deliver us from our foes?" They forgot that they were His army, the commissioned defense of God's people - the very hand of His deliverance and salvation.

Instead, like babies approached by a stranger, they point away. As if to say, 'Oh, looky there'!