Protestantism
English
¶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.
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.
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,
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Then came a man betweene them both out of the tents of the Philistims, named Goliath of Gath: his height was sixe cubites and an hande breadth,
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.
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.
And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,1
- Goliath was approximately 9 feet 9 inches or 297 centimeters tall; LXX, DSS, and Josephus four cubits and a span in height (approximately 6 feet 9 inches or 206 centimeters tall).
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
And a man named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span, came out of the camp of the Philistines and [stood] between the two [camps].
¶ 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.
Then ⌞a champion⌟1 went out from the camps of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.2
- Literally “a man of the space between”
- A cubit was about eighteen inches and a span about nine inches, so the Masoretic Hebrew text gives the height of nine feet, nine inches. Ancient Greek versions variously give Goliath’s height as four, five, or sixteen cubits.
And a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines, Goliath was his name, from Gath; his height was six cubits and a span.
And a champion named Goliath came out of the Philistines camp; he was from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.
There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
¶ 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.
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.
And there came forth a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, Goliath, his name, from Gath,—his height, six cubits and a span;
And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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.
Catholicism
English
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:
And there went out from the camp of the Philistines, a man of illegitimate birth, named Goliath of Gath, whose height1 was six cubits2 and a palm.
- 17:4His height is stated in a figurative number, meaning that he was tall (six cubits is a large number for height), but he was not a good man (seven symbolizes good, whereas six symbolizes evil, as a privation of what is good). The addition of the width of a palm to each cubit makes the ordinary cubit into a royal cubit, indicating that this man has power like a king; yet it is said of him that he is of illegitimate birth, so he does not deserve to have the power of a king. So Goliath is a figure of the Antichrist. His armor bearer is a figure of the false prophet (a woman) who assists the Antichrist.(Conte)
- 17:4On the length of the royal cubit, Ezekiel chapter 43, verse 13 tells us “Now these are the measures of the altar by the most true cubit, which has a cubit and a palm.”(Conte)