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OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

1 Chronicles 11:23

World English Bible Updated

He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits† high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

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1 Chronicles 11:23 in context

1 Chronicles 11:20–26

20

Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

21

Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.

22

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

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He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits† high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

24

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things and had a name among the three mighty men.

25

Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.

26

The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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  1. A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. Therefore this Egyptian was about 7 feet and 6 inches or 2.28 meters tall.

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