1 Samuel 17:5
“And he had an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and he was armed with a coate of male: and the weight of the coat was fiue thousand shekels of brasse.”
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1 Samuel 17:5 Context
3And the Philistines stood on a mountaine on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountaine on the other side: and there was a valley betweene them. 4¶ And there went out a champion out of the campe of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: whose height was sixe cubites and a span. 5And he had an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and he was armed with a coate of male: and the weight of the coat was fiue thousand shekels of brasse. 6And he had greaues of brasse vpon his legs, and a target of brasse betweene his shoulders. 7And the staffe of his speare was like a weauers beame, and his speares head weighed sixe hundred shekels of yron: and one bearing a shield, went before him.
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And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand shekels of brass.
- King James Version
{He had} a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.
- New American Standard Version (1995)