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1 Chronicles 11:23

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11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet 1  tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked 2  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

1 Chronicles 28:2

Context

28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 3  I have made the preparations for building it.

1 tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.

2 tn Heb “went down to.”

3 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for a stool of the feet of our God.”



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