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     * Goliath.
     # 23; 21:9,10; 2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 20:5|
     * of Gath.
     # 27:4; Jos 11:22; 2Sa 21:16-22; 1Ch 20:4-8|
     * whose height.
     # De 3:11; 1Ch 11:23; Am 2:9|
     * six cubits.
       According to Bp. Cumberland's calculation, the height of
       Goliath was about eleven feet ten inches; but Parkhurst
       estimating the ordinary cubit at seventeen inches and a half,
       calculates that he was nine feet six inches high.  Few
       instances can be produced of men who can be compared with him.
       Pliny says, "The tallest man that hath been seen in our days
       was one name Gabara, who, in the days of Claudius, the late
       Emperor, was brought out of Arabia:  he was nine feet nine
       inches."  Josephus mentions a Jew, named Eleazar, whom
       Vitellius sent to Rome, who was seven cubits, or ten feet two
       inches high.  Becanus saw a man near ten feet, and a woman
       that was full ten feet.  And, to mention no more, a man of the
       name of John Middleton, born at Hale, near Warrington, in
       Lancashire, in the reign of James the First, was more than
       nine feet high.  Dr. Plott, in his history of Staffordshire,
       says, that "his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle
       finger, was seventeen inches, his palms eight inches and a
       half broad, and his whole height was nine feet three inches;
       wanting but six inches of the height of Goliath of Gath."