2 Samuel 21:20

20 Hubo una batalla más en Gat. Allí había otro gigante, un hombre altísimo que tenía veinticuatro dedos, seis en cada mano y seis en cada pie.

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 Algún tiempo después hubo en Gob otra batalla con los filisteos, y en esa ocasión Sibecay el jusatita mató al gigante Saf.

19 En una tercera batalla, que también se libró en Gob, Eljanán hijo de Yaré Oreguín, oriundo de Belén, mató a Goliat el guitita, cuya lanza tenía un asta tan grande como el rodillo de un telar.

20 Hubo una batalla más en Gat. Allí había otro gigante, un hombre altísimo que tenía veinticuatro dedos, seis en cada mano y seis en cada pie.

21 Este se puso a desafiar a los israelitas, pero Jonatán hijo de Simá, que era hermano de David, lo mató.

22 Esos cuatro gigantes, que eran descendientes de Rafá el guitita, cayeron a manos de David y de sus oficiales.