Comments by "Jagdtoq" (@Jagdtoq) on "Малкольм Гладуэлл: Неизвестная история Давида и Голиафа" video.

  1. I don't know how he comes to the height for Goliath as 6 feet 9 inches when the Bible claims his height was six cubits and a span. An ancient cubit was at least 18 inches, more if Egyptian - Goliath was at least nine feet tall and David was not a small boy, he was a large man from a big family of large men hence the king, who was a big man, offered David his own armour knowing it would fit.
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  2. There are plenty of basket ball players well over 7 feet tall and they are not slow with double vision and if Goliath was so ill and unfit how would he ever have survived military combat to become the Philistine's supreme soldier? Ancient Hitite soldiers could march a thousand miles and lay a city to ruin at the end of it. Wealthy warriors would have a squire or arms bearer, in fact David was the squire of the King Saul, it was normal, not because the warrior was ill.
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