1 Samuel 17:4
Konteks17:4 Then a champion 1 came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall. 2
1 Samuel 20:5
Konteks20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. 3 You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.
1 Samuel 30:11
Konteks30:11 Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.
[17:4] 1 tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.
[17:4] 2 tc Heb “his height was six cubits and a span” (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV). A cubit was approximately eighteen inches, a span nine inches. So, according to the Hebrew tradition, Goliath was about nine feet, nine inches tall (cf. NIV, CEV, NLT “over nine feet”; NCV “nine feet, four inches”; TEV “nearly 3 metres”). However, some Greek witnesses, Josephus, and a manuscript of 1 Samuel from Qumran read “four cubits and a span” here, that is, about six feet, nine inches (cf. NAB “six and a half feet”). This seems more reasonable; it is likely that Goliath’s height was exaggerated as the story was retold. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 286, 291.
[20:5] 3 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.