David, King BrE AmE
( died around 962 BC) in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the Kings of Israel, who is also believed to have written some of the Psalms . His friendship with Jonathan is thought of as an example of a perfect, loyal friendship between two people. When David was a boy, he killed the ↑ giant (=a very tall, strong man) ↑ Goliath by hitting him on the head with a stone thrown from his ↑ sling . People sometimes use the names David and Goliath to describe a situation in which a small and less powerful person or group is fighting a much larger and more powerful person or group.