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19 During another battle at Gob, Elhanan son of Jair[a] from Bethlehem killed the brother of Goliath of Gath.[b] The handle of his spear was as thick as a weaver’s beam!

20 In another battle with the Philistines at Gath, they encountered a huge man[c] with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all, who was also a descendant of the giants. 21 But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David’s brother Shimea.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 21:19a As in parallel text at 1 Chr 20:5; Hebrew reads son of Jaare-oregim.
  2. 21:19b As in parallel text at 1 Chr 20:5; Hebrew reads killed Goliath of Gath.
  3. 21:20 As in parallel text at 1 Chr 20:6; Hebrew reads a Midianite.
  4. 21:21 As in parallel text at 1 Chr 20:7; Hebrew reads Shimei, a variant spelling of Shimea.

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