2 Samuel 21:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Elhanan, a Beth-lehemite Another of David's worthy and valiant commanders. Slew the brother of Goliath The relative word, brother, is not in the Hebrew text, but is properly supplied out of the parallel place. 1 Chronicles 20:5, where it is expressed. The staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam For thickness; that is, like the large roller on which the cloth is fastened in weaving.

2 Samuel 21:19

19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim,g a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.