Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
The description of the giant's armor stresses the weight of it. Scholarly estimates of what the weight was in our own terminology vary considerably; but John Willis gives what must be considered as an approximation of the actual weight.[3] The coat of mail alone weighed 125 pounds; and the shaft of his spear weighed 17 pounds.  This takes no account of the weight of the bronze helmet, the bronze javelin, and the greaves (shin-guards) of brass.  In all, his armour probably weighed in the neighborhood of 200 pounds!