Devine Scripture

1 Samuel 17:4

1 Samuel chapter 17 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.3And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

v.4This passage

v.5And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 3:11

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

  • 2 Samuel 21:16

    and Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

  • 1 Samuel 27:4

    And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

  • 1 Samuel 17:23

    And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

  • 1 Samuel 21:9

    And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale 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.

  • 1 Chronicles 11:23

    And 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.