Word: elhanan
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...other hand, cautious scholars who have no imagination have been troubled by the statement in II Samuel 21:19 where the killing of "Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam" is ascribed to one Elhanan. To smooth over the discrepancy, the passage is often made to read "the brother of Goliath the Gittite...
Last week a new Commentary on the Holy Scripture, published in England under the direction of Dr. Charles Gore, onetime Bishop of Oxford and famed as perhaps the greatest theologian in the Church of England, came out flatly in favor of Elhanan...