1 Samuel 17:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was four cubits and a span.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And a champion went out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span [almost ten feet].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Common English Bible

⁴ A champion named Goliath from Gath came out from the Philistine camp. He was more than nine feet tall.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And there went out from the camp of the Philistines, a man of illegitimate birth, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a palm.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span.

1 Samuel 17:4 Cross References

1 Chronicles 11:23

And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went against him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

Amos 2:9

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars and who was as strong as oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)

Joshua 11:22

None of the Anakim was left in the land of the Israelites; some remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.

1 Samuel 17:23

As he talked with them, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.

1 Samuel 17:3

The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.

1 Samuel 17:5

He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

1 Samuel 27:4

When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought for him.