1 Samuel 10:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ Then they ran and fetched him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ They ran and brought him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Common English Bible

²³ They ran and retrieved Saul from there, and when he stood up in the middle of the people, he was head and shoulders taller than anyone else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And so they ran and brought him there. And he stood in the midst of the people, and he was taller than the entire people, from the shoulders upward.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And they ran and fetched him thence. And he stood in the midst of the people; and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.

1 Samuel 10:23 Cross References

Genesis 3:24

He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 17:4

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

1 Samuel 9:1

There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth;

1 Samuel 9:2

and he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; from his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.