GOLIATH TOO SHORT FOR NBA!

THE MODERN VERSION "GOLIATH"

In a blunder almost as unpardonable as having Methuselah survive Noah's flood, the Vaticanus Septuagint (which is the basis for the modern versions) text also cuts Goliath down to size before David gets to take him on. Here's the verse in the Authorized Bible:

1 Sam 17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

The KJB has Goliath at SIX cubits and a span. A standard 18" cubit would make him NINE and a half feet tall. A cubit my size puts Goliath at over TEN feet tall. That's a giant.

Now here's how the Alexandrian text has it, from the Vaticanus manuscript:

http://www.ecmarsh.com/lxx/Kings%20I/index.htm

4 And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath, by name, out of Geth, his height was four cubits and a span.

The LXX has Goliath at only FOUR cubits instead of six, making him only about 6'6".

Why in the world all of Israel would be scared to death of one man who was hardly tall enough to play in the NBA is unfathomable, but that's the situation in the LXX.

1 Sam 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

As a young man, Saul was at least a good foot taller than anyone else around. That would make him likely between seven and eight feet tall. Why a warrior approaching eight feet in height would be afraid of a little six foot shrimp like the LXX Goliath is difficult to conceive. But the LXX is infested with such incredible lunacy.

What sane person, even a sane lost person, would adhere so fiercely to a text that has the soldier kill Christ (rather than Christ giving up the ghost willingly), that has death swallowed up in controversy instead of victory (just like the Bible debate, KJBOs have assurance and victory, modern versionists have confusion), has Methuselah survive Noah's flood, and cuts Goliath shorter than an average NBA player?