1 Samuel 10:23
Good News Translation
So they ran and brought Saul out to the people, and they could see that he was a foot taller than anyone else.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they ran and brought him from there. When he took his stand among the people, he was head and shoulders taller than any of them.

Contemporary English Version
The people ran and got Saul and brought him into the middle of the crowd. He was more than a head taller than anyone else.

New American Bible
They ran to bring him from there; when he took his place among the people, he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.

he was higher

1 Samuel 9:2 And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people.

1 Samuel 16:7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

1 Samuel 17:4 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:

Context
Saul Proclaimed King
22And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home. 23And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.24And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:24
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

1 Samuel 9:2
And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people.

1 Samuel 10:22
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