Num 13:33, Deu 2:20-21, 3:11, 1Sa 17:4, 2Sa 21:15-22 | TSK | STEP

Numbers 13:33

saw the giants.

22; De 1:28; 2:10; 3:11; 9:2; 1Sa 17:4-7; 2Sa 21:20-22; 1Ch 11:23

and we were.

1Sa 17:42; Isa 40:22

Deuteronomy 2:20-21

Zamzummims.

Ge 14:5

Zuzims.

great.

10,11; 1:28; 3:11

but the Lord.These fragments of ancient history seem to be introduced to encourage the Israelites. If the Lord destroyed these gigantic people before the posterity of Lot and of Esau, what cause had the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his chosen servants and friends, to fear the Anakims, or the Canaanites? especially as Israel acted by commission from God, and had his promise as their security of success, and the pledge of it in his presence, and the wonders which he had already wrought for them; and as they were the only nation of worshippers of the Lord, in the ordinances of his institution, which could be found on earth. This is so often repeated to possess the minds of the Israelites with a sense of God's providence, which rules every where; displacing one people, and placing another in their stead; and fixing their bounds also, which they cannot pass without his leave.

22; Jud 11:24; Jer 27:7,8; Hab 1:10,11

Deuteronomy 3:11

giants.

Ge 14:5

Rabbath.

2Sa 12:26; Jer 49:2; Eze 21:20; Am 1:14

Rabbah. nine cubits.

1Sa 17:4; Am 2:9

1 Samuel 17:4

Goliath.

23; 21:9,10; 2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 20:5

of Gath.

27:4; Jos 11:22; 2Sa 21:16-22; 1Ch 20:4-8

whose height.

De 3:11; 1Ch 11:23; Am 2:9

six cubits.According to Bp. Cumberland's calculation, the height of Goliath was about eleven feet ten inches; but Parkhurst estimating the ordinary cubit at seventeen inches and a half, calculates that he was nine feet six inches high. Few instances can be produced of men who can be compared with him. Pliny says, "The tallest man that hath been seen in our days was one name Gabara, who, in the days of Claudius, the late Emperor, was brought out of Arabia: he was nine feet nine inches." Josephus mentions a Jew, named Eleazar, whom Vitellius sent to Rome, who was seven cubits, or ten feet two inches high. Becanus saw a man near ten feet, and a woman that was full ten feet. And, to mention no more, a man of the name of John Middleton, born at Hale, near Warrington, in Lancashire, in the reign of James the First, was more than nine feet high. Dr. Plott, in his history of Staffordshire, says, that "his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches, his palms eight inches and a half broad, and his whole height was nine feet three inches; wanting but six inches of the height of Goliath of Gath."

2 Samuel 21:15-22

the Philistines.

5:17,22; 1Ch 20:4

and David waxed faint.

Jos 14:10,11; Ps 71:9,18; 73:26; Ec 12:3; Isa 40:28-30

Jer 9:23,24; 1Pe 1:24,25

of the sons.

Ge 6:4; Nu 13:32,33; De 1:28; 2:10,21; 3:11; 9:2; 1Sa 17:4,5

the giant. or, Rapha.

18,20; *marg:

5:18; Ge 14:5

whose spear. Heb. the staff, or, the head. thought.

1Sa 17:45-51

Abishai.

20:6-10

succoured.

22:19; Ps 46:1; 144:10

Thou shalt.

18:3

quench.

14:7; 1Ki 11:36; 15:4; Ps 132:17; Joh 1:8,9; 5:35

light. Heb. candle, or lamp.

Sibbechai.

1Ch 11:29; 20:4

Saph. or, Sippai.

1Ch 20:4

the giant. or, Rapha.

16,20; *marg:

Elhanan, etc.Instead of [y`ry 'rgym byt hlchmy 't glyt,] of the text, we should certainly read, as in the parallel text, "and Elhanan the son of Jair, slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath."

1Ch 11:26

Jaare-oregim. or, Jair.

1Ch 20:5

Goliath.

1Sa 17:4-11

yet a battle.

1Ch 20:6

the giant. or, Rapha.

16,18; *marg:

defied. or, reproached.

1Sa 17:10,25,26,36; 2Ki 19:13

Jonathan.