a man of great stature: Heb. a man of measure
five: Deuteronomy 3:11; 1 Samuel 17:4
a spear: 1 Chronicles 20:5
slew him: 1 Samuel 17:51
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1 Chronicles 11:23
1 Chronicles 11:23
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