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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there was yet a battle in Gath,.... Besides the battles in the above place or places; for this does not necessarily suppose that one of the said battles had been there, only that this, which was another battle, had been there: where was a man of [great] stature; for so the sense of the word appears to be from 1 Chronicles 20:6; though here it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he defied Israel,.... The armies of Israel, as Goliath had done some years ago, 1 Samuel 17:10; Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him; this brother of David is called Shammah, 1 Samuel 16:9; and Shimma, 1 Chronicles 2:13; this son of his is another man from Jonadab his son, who was famous for his subtlety as this was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These four were born to the giant in Gath,.... Not to Goliath, for one of them was his brother, but to some giant or another of that place, for which it was famous; they were all of them of the race of the giants; and so the Septuagint version, they were "the offspring of the giants in Gath, whose family was Repha;'' and this Repha, or Arepha, as...