1 Samuel 17:5 meaning and explanation
and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
1 Samuel 17:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator describes Goliath of Gath as he steps out before Israel's army in the Valley of Elah. This is the armor list of a heavily equipped champion: a bronze helmet and a coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels, roughly fifty seven kilograms, stressing how impossible this fighter seemed to ordinary soldiers.
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