2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 Samuel 21:19 Elhanan... struck down Goliath the Gittite. Since David killed Goliath of Gath (1 Samuel 17:1), and “Gittite” means someone from Gath, this statement is puzzling. Among the proposed solutions are three that uphold the truthfulness of Scripture: (1) in view of the parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 20:5, perhaps this passage should read “Lahmi the brother of Goliath”; (2) the passages refer to two different men named Goliath; (3) “Goliath” was a common noun meaning “giant.”

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