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The Philistine army’s champion came out of their camp. His name was Goliath from Gath. He was ten feet tall.[a] He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore a bronze coat of armor scales weighing 125 pounds. On his legs he had bronze shin guards and on his back a bronze javelin.

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  1. 17:4 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek “seven feet tall.”

A champion named Goliath,(A) who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.[a] He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels[b]; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin(B) was slung on his back.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:4 That is, about 9 feet 9 inches or about 3 meters
  2. 1 Samuel 17:5 That is, about 125 pounds or about 58 kilograms