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Important to note, Saul put his own battle garments on David.
Saul is noted as being extremely physically imposing and larger than any other man in the kingdom. And his armor fit David.
~~Nowhere does the story~~ Ok earlier in the book say that. And it's not pertinent, anyway.
1st Samuel 9:2
It’s pertinent because Saul was anointed by Samuel specifically to be the physically imposing king on the battlefield against the Philistines to rival men like Goliath.
But he pussied out and didn’t fight for Israel when it came down to it, and sent David out instead. David is what Saul was anointed to be. A large, physically imposing man, anointed by God to be the king of all the tribes of Israel.