1 Samuel 10:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

1 Samuel 17:4

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.

1 Samuel 9:1

Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour.

1 Samuel 9:2

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.