The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
      1. His prodigious size. He was of the sons of Anak, who at Gath kept their ground in Joshua's time (Joshua 11:22), and kept up a race of giants there, of which Goliath was one, and, it is probable, one of the largest. He was in height six cubits and a span,1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Samuel 17:4. They learned bishop Cumberland has made it out that the scripture-cubit was above twenty-one inches (above three inches more than our half-yard) and a span was half a cubit, by which computation Goliath wanted but eight inches of four yard in height, eleven feet and four inches, a monstrous stature, and which made him very formidable, especially if he had strength and spirit proportionable.