John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 21:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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These four were born to the giant in Gath, etc.] Not to Goliath, for one of them was his brother, but to some giant or another of that place, for which it was famous; they were all of them of the race of the giants; and so the Septuagint version, they were “the offspring of the giants in Gath, whose family was Repha;” and this Repha, or Arepha, as the Vulgate Latin version, according to Abarbinel, was a woman of the daughters of the giants; the Talmudists f372 make her to be the same with Orpah, (<080104>Ruth 1:4). These giants, it is highly probable, were the descendants of the Anakim which remained in Gath after they were cut off by Joshua in other places, (<061122>Joshua 11:22); and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants; the first, Ishbibenob, fell by the hand of David assisted by Abishai, and the other three by the persons mentioned.

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