1 Samuel 17:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines, named Golyath, from Gath, whose height was six 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.

1 Samuel 17:4 Cross References

1 Chronicles 11:23

And he smote a Mitsrian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. And in the Mitsrian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam, and he went down to him with a staff and wrenched the spear out of the Mitsrian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

Amos 2:9

“Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars. And he was as strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.

Deuteronomy 3:11

“For only Og sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha’ites. See, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.

Joshua 11:22

There were none of the Anaqim left in the land of the children of Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 17:23

And he was speaking with them and saw the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Golyath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines. And he spoke according to the same words, and Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 17:3

And the Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 17:5

And a bronze helmet was on his head, and he was armed with a scaled armour, and the weight of the coat was five thousand sheqels of bronze,

1 Samuel 27:4

And it was reported to Sha’ul that Dawiḏ