⁴ The Philistines had a champion fighter from Gath named Goliath. He was ·about nine feet, four inches tall [^Lsix cubits and a span].^[a] He came out of the Philistine camp ⁵ with a bronze helmet on his head and a coat of bronze ·armor [mail; scale-armor] that weighed ·about one hundred twenty-five pounds [^Lfive thousand shekels]. ⁶ He wore bronze ·protectors [greaves] on his legs, and he had a bronze spear ·on his back [across his shoulders].