1 Chronicles 11:23

Overview - 1 Chronicles 11
David by general consent is made king at Hebron.
He wins the castle of Zion from the Jebusites by Joab's valour.
10 A catalogue of David's mighty men.
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1 Chronicles 11:23  (King James Version)
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
 


a man of great stature
Hebrew a man of measure. five.
Deuteronomy 3:11 ; 1 Samuel 17:4

a spear
20:5

slew him
1 Samuel 17:51