◄ 1 Samuel 17:4 ►
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New International Version
A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.

English Standard Version
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
Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then a champion named Goliath, from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was nine feet, nine inches tall

International Standard Version
A champion named Goliath from Gath came out from the Philistine camp. He was four cubits and a span tall,

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.

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.

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,

Commentaries
Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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.

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