1 Samuel 17:1-7 ▼

1 Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle and were assembled at Socoh, which belongs to Judah; and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

2 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and they camped in the Valley of Elah, and assembled in battle formation to meet the Philistines.

3 The Philistines were standing on the mountain on one side and Israel was standing on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.

4 Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and wore a coat of scale-armor (overlapping metal plates) which weighed 5,000 shekels of bronze.

6 He had bronze shin protectors on his legs and a bronze javelin hung between his shoulders.

7 The [wooden] shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; the blade-head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And a shield-bearer walked in front of him.