📖WEB · 1 Samuel 17:5
What does 1 Samuel 17:5 mean?
"He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass."
— 1 Samuel 17:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
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.
A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.
He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a brass javelin between his shoulders.
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.
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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