And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
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Gill's Exposition
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him,.... Observing him in danger, made haste to his relief:
and smote the Philistine, and killed him; it seems as if Abishai engaged with the Philistine, and…
Barnes' Notes
Ishbi-benob - A corrupt reading. The whole passage should perhaps run thus: “And David waxed faint. So they halted in Gob (as in 2Sa 21:18-19). And there was a man (in Gob) which was of the sons of…
Adam Clarke
Being girded with a new sword - As the word sword is not in the original, we may apply the term new to his armor in general; he had got new arms, a new coat of mail, or something that defended him…
We have here the story of some conflicts with the Philistines, which happened, as it should seem, in the latter end of David's reign. Though he had so subdued them that they could not bring any great…
Cambridge Bible
Ishbi-benob Perhaps = "dweller on a height," a name given him because he lived in some inaccessible castle. But there are good reasons for suspecting that there is some corruption in the text, and…
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