1 Samuel 17:4
Then a champion came out of the Philistine camp. His name was Goliath from Gath, and he was six cubits and a span tall.
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3The Philistines were on one hill and the Israelites on another with the valley between them.
5He had on his head a bronze helmet and he wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels.
Cross References
Joshua 11:22and there were no descendants of Anak left in the land of Israel, only some in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
1 Samuel 21:9The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine is here—the one you killed in the Valley of Elah. It's wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. You can take it if you want. It's the only one here.” “It's better than any other sword! Please give it to me,” David replied.
2 Samuel 21:16Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels, and who was carrying a new sword, said he was going to kill David.
1 Chronicles 20:4Some time after this war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. But then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were forced to submit.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 17:2-12
Goliath's Challenge to Israel. ( b. c. 1060.) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between… Read the whole commentary →