5
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother [a] of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
3
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
4
Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.
5
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
6
And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
7
and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Or Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother; see 2 Samuel 21:19.
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