Goliath’s Armaments Goliath was equipped with a diverse collection of offensive and defensive armaments, both domestic and imported. Pictorial representations from Egypt suggest that Philistine soldiers normally wore a feathered headdress, but Goliath wore a more substantial helmet. The giant’s entire torso was protected by heavy scale armor, weighing in at 5,000 bronze shekels, or nearly 126 pounds. Neither the helmet nor the cuirass was typical of Semitic armaments. “Greaves” of bronze protected