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Goliath

From: Jan Britten <janbritten AT yahoo.com>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Goliath
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:09:10 -0800 (PST)

> You'll find that the words [the brother of] are
missing from 2 Samuel 21:19.
> Compare 1 Chronicles 20:5. Elhanan slew *Lahmi*;
David slew Goliath.

> Shalom
> Ben

This is perhaps POSSIBLE, but I think you will find
that almost all modern commentators agree that the
Chronicles version is an attempt to harmonise the
obvious discrepancy.

Jan

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Goliath, Jan Britten, 02/03/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Goliath, Jan Britten, 02/05/2001
- Re: Goliath, Daladier Lima, 02/05/2001
- Re: Goliath, Dave Washburn, 02/05/2001
- Re: Goliath, Dave Washburn, 02/06/2001
- RE: Goliath, Dan Wagner, 02/08/2001
- Re: Goliath, Ian Hutchesson, 02/08/2001
- RE: Goliath, Peter Kirk, 02/09/2001
- Re: Goliath, Raymond de Hoop, 02/09/2001
- Re: Goliath, Ian Hutchesson, 02/09/2001
- RE: Goliath, Peter Kirk, 02/10/2001
- RE: Goliath, Dan Wagner, 02/13/2001