2 Samuel 21:19

19 There was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair from Bethlehem killed Goliath from Gath, whose spear had a shaft as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom.

2 Samuel 21:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 21:19

And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines
Another battle with them in the same place:

where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother
of] Goliath the Gittite;
the word "brother" is rightly supplied from ( 1 Chronicles 20:5 ) ; where his name is said to be Lahmi, for not Goliath himself was slain, though some so interpret it, and take Elhanan to be David; so Jarchi, and with which agrees the Targum; but he was slain not at Gob, but in the valley of Elah, nor had David any such name as Elhanan; he was one of David's worthies, ( 2 Samuel 23:24 ) ; where he is called the son of Dodo, and in ( 1 Chronicles 20:5 ) , the son of Jair; and Lahmi there may not be the name of Goliath's brother, but, as here, the country name of Elhanan; for the words ^F26 there may be rendered,

``and Elhanan the son of Jair, the Lehemite (i.e. the Bethlehemite), slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,''

and so perfectly agrees, with this:

the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam;
not of Goliath's brother, but of Goliath himself, ( 1 Samuel 17:7 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Vid. Buxtorf. Anticritic. par. 2. c. 2. p. 421.

2 Samuel 21:19 In-Context

17 But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David's help, attacked the giant, and killed him. Then David's men made David promise that he would never again go out with them to battle. "You are the hope of Israel, and we don't want to lose you," they said.

18 After this there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, during which Sibbecai from Hushah killed a giant named Saph.

19 There was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair from Bethlehem killed Goliath from Gath, whose spear had a shaft as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom.

20 Then there was another battle at Gath, where there was a giant who loved to fight. He had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.

21 He defied the Israelites, and Jonathan, the son of David's brother Shammah, killed him.

Footnotes

• [a]. [Probable text (see 1 Ch 20.5)] Jair; [Hebrew] Jaareoregim.