Giant Gates to Goliath’s Home Discovered: Monumental Fortification Belonging to the Biblical City of Philistine Gath Unearthed
- 1 Samuel 17:4-6 New King James Version (NKJV)
4 And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.
– - Deuteronomy 3:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants.[a] Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
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