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1 Sam. 17:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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.

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Goliath.

1 Sam. 17:23• ²³And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. (1 Sam. 17:23)

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1 Sam. 21:9‑10• ⁹And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
¹⁰And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. (1 Sam. 21:9‑10)

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2 Sam. 21:19• ¹⁹And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (2 Sam. 21:19)

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1 Chron. 20:5• ⁵And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam. (1 Chron. 20:5)

of Gath.

1 Sam. 27:4• ⁴And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him. (1 Sam. 27:4)

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Josh. 11:22• ²²There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained. (Josh. 11:22)

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2 Sam. 21:16‑22• ¹⁶And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
¹⁷But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
¹⁸And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
¹⁹And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
²⁰And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
²¹And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
²²These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. (2 Sam. 21:16‑22)

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1 Chron. 20:4‑8• ⁴And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of {/kn{kn 11326}}the giant: and they were subdued.
⁵And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
⁶And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.
⁷But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
⁸These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. (1 Chron. 20:4‑8)

whose height.

Deut. 3:11• ¹¹For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. (Deut. 3:11)

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1 Chron. 11:23• ²³And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. (1 Chron. 11:23)

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Amos 2:9• ⁹Yet destroyed I 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. (Amos 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.

Becanus saw a man near ten feet, and a woman that was 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."

• In a word, the entire history of Christ, the Victor over Satan, is summarized in this period of David’s activity. The Philistines had already been conquered many times, but not their leader, the giant Goliath. (“1 Samuel 17” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

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Lit. "middle-man"; and so ver. 23.