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The Philistines took up a position in front of the mountain on one side of the valley, and the Israelites stationed themselves in front of the mountain on the other side of the valley.

A challenger who represented the Philistines came out from the camp of the Philistines. He was named Goliath of Gath. He was nine feet, six inches tall.[a] He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore scaled body armor, which was made of more than one hundred pounds[b] of bronze.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:4 Hebrew six cubits and a span. A Hebrew Dead Sea Scroll, some Greek manuscripts, and the historian Josephus have the variant four cubits and a span, that is, six feet, nine inches.
  2. 1 Samuel 17:5 Hebrew five thousand shekels