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He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
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Verse 5. Scales, like those of fishes. Septuagint insinuate, that it was armed with things resembling fish-hooks; αλισιδωντον, hamata.—Brass, which was used for the armour of the ancients. Plutarch (in Demetrio) speaks of a coat of mail weighing forty pounds: the usual weight was twenty pounds. Lipsius.—The strength of the giant must have borne proportion with his size. Calmet.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 5000 shekels is about 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.
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