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New Testament
2 Samuel 21:15-22
Battles with the Philistine Giants
15War occurred again between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his troops and fought against the Philistines. David became very tired. 16Ishbi Benob was one of the descendants of Rapha the giant.[] His bronze spear weighed more than seven pounds,[] and he was equipped with a new weapon. He said that he was going to kill David. 17Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David's aid. He attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You are not to go out to battle with us anymore, so that you do not put out the lamp of Israel.”
18After this, there was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, in which Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was also descended from Rapha the giant.
19There was yet another battle with the Philistines at Gob. Elhanan son of Jair, the Bethlehemite, killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite,[] whose spear shaft was like a weaver's beam.
20There was war again in Gath. There was a very tall man who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha the giant. 21When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimeah,[] the brother of David, killed him. 22These four were descended from Rapha, the giant in Gath. They fell at the hand of David and his servants.
Footnotes
- 21:16 Literally the Rapha. Rapha was the ancestor of a group of very tall men who lived among the Philistines. They are called the Rephaim, and the valley where some of these battles were fought was named after them.
- 21:16 Hebrew three hundred shekels
- 21:19 The Hebrew text here reads Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite. This reading does not agree with the account of David killing Goliath in 1 Samuel 17. The translation above follows the reading of the parallel text in 1 Chronicles 20:5
- 21:21 There are several different Hebrew spellings of the name of this brother of David, also known as Shimea, Shimei, and Shammah. Such inconsistency in the spelling of personal names is common.