1 Samuel 17:4
“¶ And there went out a champion out of the campe of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: whose height was sixe cubites and a span.”
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1 Samuel 17:4 Context
2And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battell in aray against the Philistines. 3And the Philistines stood on a mountaine on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountaine on the other side: and there was a valley betweene them. 4¶ And there went out a champion out of the campe of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: whose height was sixe cubites and a span. 5And he had an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and he was armed with a coate of male: and the weight of the coat was fiue thousand shekels of brasse. 6And he had greaues of brasse vpon his legs, and a target of brasse betweene his shoulders.
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Other Translations for 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.
- King James Version
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
- Basic English Bible
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- Darby Bible
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose hight was six cubits and a span.
- Webster's Bible
There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- World English Bible
And there goeth out a man of the duellists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath [is] his name, from Gath; his height [is] six cubits and a span,
- Youngs Literal Bible
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Samuel 17:4
17:4 Six cubits - At least, nine feet, nine inches high. And this is not strange; for besides the giants mentioned in Scripture, Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, and Pliny, make mention of persons seven cubits high.