2 Samuel 21:20

20 Y hubo guerra otra vez en Gat, donde había un hombre de gran estatura que tenía seis dedos en cada mano y seis dedos en cada pie, veinticuatro en total; él también descendía del gigante.

2 Samuel 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 21:20

And there was yet a battle in Gath
Besides the battles in the above place or places; for this does not necessarily suppose that one of the said battles had been there, only that this, which was another battle, had been there:

where was a man of [great] stature;
for so the sense of the word appears to be from ( 1 Chronicles 20:6 ) ; though here it signifies a man of strife and contention, a man of war, and both were true of him:

that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four
and twenty in number;
twelve fingers on his two hands, and twelve toes on his two feet. Pliny ^F1 speaks of one M. Curiatius, a patrician, who had two daughters that had six fingers on an hand, and were called "Sedigitae", six-fingered; and of Volcatius, a famous poet, called "Sedigitus", or six-fingered, for the same reason; and elsewhere, from other writers ^F2 he makes mention of a people that had eight toes each foot; so Ctesias ^F3 speaks of a people in the mountains of India, which have eight fingers on each hand, and eight toes on each foot, both men and women:

and he also was born to the giant;
a son of a giant.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 43.
F2 Megasthenes apud ib. l. 7. c. 2.
F3 In Indicis, c. 31.

2 Samuel 21:20 In-Context

18 Sucedió después de esto que hubo otra vez guerra en Gob contra los filisteos; entonces Sibecai husatita mató a Saf, que era de los descendientes del gigante.

19 De nuevo hubo guerra contra los filisteos en Gob, y Elhanán, hijo de Jaare-oregim, de Belén, mató a Goliat geteo; el asta de su lanza era como un rodillo de tejedor.

20 Y hubo guerra otra vez en Gat, donde había un hombre de gran estatura que tenía seis dedos en cada mano y seis dedos en cada pie, veinticuatro en total; él también descendía del gigante.

21 Cuando desafió a Israel, lo mató Jonatán, hijo de Simea, hermano de David.

22 Estos cuatro descendían del gigante en Gat y cayeron por mano de David y por mano de sus siervos.