The Bible says he was six cubits high. A cubit is the distance from your elbow to your fingertips, a foot and a half. But was Goliath six of YOUR cubits high, or was he six UKRAINIAN cubits high?

I’m five seven and these days I see young (NOT old) Ukrainian women my height or a handful of inches taller. My wife is five two and vividly remembers the day we went to church at the famous Pochaiv monastery. It was a five or six hour service (we only stayed three and a half, standing the whole time). She vividly remembers that, standing behind dozens of old women, she could see over all their heads. This is something that had never happened to her before. That’s because all those women had been born in the 1920′s in the Soviet Union. » Read more: Was Goliath really nine feet tall?