Which pendentive scene depicts the story of David and Goliath?

Which pendentive scene depicts the story of David and Goliath? The scene is David and Goliath.

Michelangelo painted David and Goliath on one of the four large corner pendentives, or doubled spandrels, of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The image comes from the biblical story in which the young Israelite David defeats the heavily armed Philistine warrior Goliath with a sling and then uses Goliath’s sword to kill him.

The four corner scenes portray dramatic episodes in which the people of Israel are rescued from enemies or from the consequences of sin. Alongside David and Goliath are The Brazen Serpent, The Punishment of Haman, and Judith and Holofernes. These scenes are separate from the nine central panels that narrate Genesis from creation through Noah.

A common mix-up is to treat every major biblical image on the ceiling as one of the central Genesis scenes. David and Goliath is not part of that nine-panel sequence; it occupies a corner structural element. The pendentive placement also helps distinguish it from Judith and Holofernes, another salvation story shown elsewhere on the ceiling.