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Real David and Goliath moment.
So many people get David and Goliath wrong though.
David wasn’t some scrawny little kid. He was fuckin huge. He grew up fighting bears and lions with his bare hands, and was extremely well trained with his sling.
And after he killed Goliath, he wielded his sword and wore his armor, which were extremely heavy. Goliaths armor is directly stated to weigh 5,000 shekels which would be around 127lbs. The spear Goliath wielded had a tip that weighed 15 pounds alone.
Goliath(copy/paste): he was six cubits and a span tall...the armor weighing five thousand copper shekels...On his legs were copper shields and between his shoulders, a copper guard...The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam and his spearhead weighed six hundred iron shekels; the shield bearer walked in front of him...Dovid was the youngest...Shaul said to Dovid, "You cannot go to fight this Philistine, for you are a lad, while he has been a warrior from his childhood..." Shaul dressed Dovid in his own battle garments, and put a copper helmet on his head and dressed him in armor...Dovid girded his sword over his battle garments. But he did not want to go out [in Shaul's battle garments], for he was not accustomed [to them]; so Dovid said to Shaul, "I am unable to walk with these, for I am not accustomed [to them]," and Dovid removed them from himself...He took his staff in his hand and picked out five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd's bag, in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; he then approached the Philistine...Dovid reached into the bag, took a stone from there and slung it, and struck the Philistine in the forehead; the stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell face down upon the ground...Thus Dovid overpowered the Philistine with the sling and stone; he smote the Philistine and killed him, though there was no sword in Dovid's hand...
https://www.sefaria.org/I_Samuel.17.5?ven=english|The_Metsudah_Tanach_series,_Lakewood,_N.J&lang=bi. I don't know. Pretty impressive tale, regardless, imo.
What is the conversion rate from copper shekels to Stanley nikels?
Same rate as leprechauns to unicorns
Dunno. Brief search found this: https://testamentpress.com/ancient-money-calculator.html but it's a horrible website and doesn't have that time frame or specific currency.