1st Chronicles Chapter 20 verse 8 Holy Bible
These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.
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These were born to Rapha in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - These were born unto the giant in Gath. The parallel place reads, "These four,,' etc. The first of the four in view there is not mentioned here. The account is given in 2 Samuel 21:15-17. And as it was in that encounter that David himself played the chief part (though, apparently, it was Abishai who dealt Ishbi-benob the fatal blow in "succouring" David), the notice of it would have seemed necessary to complete fully the sense of the following clauses, "They fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants." Still this, it may justly be argued, may have been the very reason of the form of expression here chosen, coupling David's work and that of his servants. This brief summary in the last verse of this chapter, as also in the last verse of the corresponding chapter, just serves to reveal to us the nexus that bound together the three or four exploits for narration. It consisted in the common descent of the four giant victims.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) These ('?l), a rare word, found eight times in the Pentateuch with the article, here only without; perhaps an error of transcription. Samuel, "these four." The chronicler has omitted one giant. (See 1Chronicles 20:4.)The giant.--The Rephaite: that is, the clan or tribe of Rephaim. They need not have been brothers.
