Matthew Henry · Verses 1–11
Men so entirely depend upon God in all things, that when he withdraws his help, the most valiant and resolute cannot find their hearts or hands, as daily experience shows.
1 Samuel 17:7
The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
World English Bible
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WEBBE
The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
BSB
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.
KJV
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
ASV
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield-bearer went before him.
BBE
The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.
Original Hebrew
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וְעֵץ
ve·chatz
and [the] wood of
H6086
חֲנִיתוֹ
cha·ni·to
spear his
H2595
כִּמְנוֹר
kim·nor
[was] like a beam of
H4500
אֹרְגִים
'o·re·gim
weavers
H707
וְלַהֶבֶת
ve·la·he·vet
and [the] blade of
H3852
חֲנִיתוֹ
cha·ni·to
spear his
H2595
שֵׁשׁ־
shesh-
[was] six
H8337
מֵאוֹת
me·'ot
hundred(s)
H3967
שְׁקָלִים
she·ka·lim
shekels
H8255
בַּרְזֶל
bar·zel
iron
H1270
וְנֹשֵׂא
ve·no·se'
and [the] bearer of
H5375
הַצִּנָּה
ha·tzi·nah
the body shield
H6793
הֹלֵךְ
ho·lekh
[was] walking
H1980
לְפָנָיו
le·fa·nav
(to) before him
H6440
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