1 Samuel 17:4
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New International Version (©1984)
A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel. He was over nine feet tall!

English Standard Version (©2001)
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The Philistine army's champion came out of their camp. His name was Goliath from Gath. He was ten feet tall.

King James Bible
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 King James Version
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
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.

Bible in Basic English
And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Darby Bible Translation
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose hight was six cubits and a span.

World English 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.

Young's Literal Translation
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,

Geneva Study Bible

And there {a} went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

(a) Between the two camps.

Wesley's Notes

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

1Sa 17:4-11. Goliath Challenges a Combat.

4-11. a champion-Hebrew, a "man between two"; that is, a person who, on the part of his own people, undertook to determine the national quarrel by engaging in single combat with a chosen warrior in the hostile army.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-11 Men so entirely depend upon God in all things, that when he withdraws his help, the most valiant and resolute cannot find their hearts or hands, as daily experience shows.


Joshua 11:22 There were no Anakim left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod some remained.
2 Samuel 21:19 There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (NASB ©1995)

Armies Camp Camps Champion Cubits Duellists Height Hight Nine Philistine Philistines Six Span Tall Tents

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.

Goliath 1Sa 17:23 21:9,10 2Sa 21:19 1Ch 20:5

of Gath 1Sa 27:4 Jos 11:22 2Sa 21:16-22 1Ch 20:4-8

whose height De 3:11 1Ch 11:23 Am 2:9

six cubits According to Bp. Cumberland's calculation, the height of Goliath was about eleven feet ten inches; but Parkhurst estimating the ordinary cubit at seventeen inches and a half, calculates that he was nine feet six inches high. Few instances can be produced of men who can be compared with him. Pliny says, `The tallest man that hath been seen in our days was one name Gabara, who, in the days of Claudius, the late Emperor, was brought out of Arabia: he was nine feet nine inches.' Josephus mentions a Jew, named Eleazar, whom Vitellius sent to Rome, who was seven cubits, or ten feet two inches high. Becanaus saw a man near ten feet, and a woman that was a full ten feet. And, to mention no more, a man of the name of John Middleton, born at Hale, near Warrington, in Lancashire, in the reign of James the First, was more than nine feet high. Dr. Plott, in his history of Staffordshire, says, that `his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches, his palms eight inches and a half broad, and his whole height was nine feet three inches; wanting but six inches of the height of Goliath of Gath.'

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Alphabetical: A and armies came camp champion cubits feet from Gath Goliath He height named nine of out over Philistine Philistines six span tall the Then was who whose

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