He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
1 Samuel 17:4 - Y'all Version Bible A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 A champion named Goliath from Gath came out from the Philistine camp. He was more than nine feet tall. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 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. |
He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bedstead was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
As he talked with them, suddenly the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words, and David heard them.
The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him.