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And he had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor, and the weight of that scale-armor was five thousand [a]shekels of bronze. He also had bronze [b]greaves on his legs and a (A)bronze [c]javelin slung between his shoulders. (B)And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; (C)his shield-carrier also walked before him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:5 A shekel was approx. 0.4 oz. or 11 gm
  2. 1 Samuel 17:6 Or shin guards
  3. 1 Samuel 17:6 Or scimitar