OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

1 Samuel 17:5

World English Bible Updated

He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

1 Samuel 17:5 in context

1 Samuel 17:2–8

2

Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

3

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.

4

A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.

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He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

6

He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.

7

The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.

8

He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

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  1. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 5000 shekels is about 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.

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