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A Champion


A Champion

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Literally, “a man of the two middles,” i. e. one who enters the space between the two armies in order to decide the contest by a single combat. Of Gath. In Josh. 11:21 this town is mentioned, together with Gaza and Ashdod, as still having among its inhabitants men of the race of Anak.Whose height was six cubits and a span. In our measure his height was eight feet five and one-third inches; for the cubit is sixteen inches, and the span (really the hand-breadth) is five and one-third inches.


Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed. 1 Samuel. London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. Print. The Pulpit Commentary.
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