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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Chronicles 20:5

And there arose warre agayne wt the Philistynes. The Elhamah ye sonne of Iair smote Lahemi ye brother of Goliath ye Gathite, whose speares staff was life a weeuers lome.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Elhanan;   Gath;   Goliath;   Jair;   Lahmi;   Thompson Chain Reference - Goliath;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Giants;   Rephaim;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elhanan;   Giants;   Goliath;   Jaare-Oregim;   Jair;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elhanan;   Jaare-Oregim;   Jair;   Lahmi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - El-Hanan;   Giants;   Jaare-Oregim;   Jair;   Lahmi;   Loom;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Elhanan;   Giant;   Jaare-Oregim;   Lahmi;   Spinning and Weaving;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Jairus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elhanan ;   Gittites ;   Goliath ;   Jaareoregim ;   Jair ;   Lahmi ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armor;   Arms;   Jair;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Arms, Armor;   Elha'nan;   Ja'are-Or'egim;   Lah'mi;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Rephaim;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beam;   David;   Elhanan;   Giants;   Gittites;   Goliath;   Heredity;   Jaare-Oregim;   Jair;   Lahmi;   Weaving;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Elhanan;   Giants;   Goliath;   Jair;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath of Gath. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.
Hebrew Names Version
There was again war with the Pelishtim; and Elchanan the son of Ya'ir killed Lachmi the brother of Golyat the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
King James Version
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
English Standard Version
And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
New Century Version
Later, there was another battle with the Philistines. Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath, who was from the town of Gath. His spear was as large as a weaver's rod.
New English Translation
There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver's loom.
Amplified Bible
There was war again with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
New American Standard Bible
And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
World English Bible
There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And there was yet another battell with the Philistims: and Elhanan the sonne of Iair slewe Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spearestaffe was like a weauers beame.
Legacy Standard Bible
And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
In another battle against the Philistines, Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath from Gath, whose spear shaft was like a weaver's beam.
Complete Jewish Bible
There was more war with the P'lishtim; and Elchanan the son of Ya'ir killed Lachmi the brother of Golyat the Gitti, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's beam.
Darby Translation
And there was again a battle with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair smote Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.
Easy-to-Read Version
Another time when the Israelites fought against the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi. Lahmi was Goliath's brother. Goliath was from the town of Gath. Lahmi's spear was very big and heavy. It was like the large pole on a loom.
George Lamsa Translation
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi of the descendants of the giants, who was the brother of Goliath the mighty man of Gath, whose spear staff was like a weavers beam.
Good News Translation
There was another battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath from Gath, whose spear had a shaft as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom.
Lexham English Bible
And again there was war with the Philistines. And Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Literal Translation
And there was a battle again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite the wood of whose spear was like the weavers' beam.
American Standard Version
And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Bible in Basic English
And again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan, the son of Jair, put to death Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there was battayle agayne with the Philistines, & Elhanan the sonne of Iair slue Lahemi the brother of Goliah the Gethite, whose speare was lyke a weauers beame.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
King James Version (1611)
And there was warre againe with the Philistines, and Elhanan the sonne of Iair, slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spearestaffe was like a weauers beame.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Eleanan the son of Jair smote Lachmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear was as a weavers’ beam.
English Revised Version
And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also another batel was don ayens Filisteis, in which a man youun of God, the sone of forest, a man of Bethleem, killide Goliath of Geth, the brother of giauntis, of whos schaft the tre was as the beem of webbis.
Update Bible Version
And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Webster's Bible Translation
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff [was] like a weaver's beam.
New King James Version
Again there was war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair 2 Samuel 21:19">[fn] killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
New Living Translation
During another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath of Gath. The handle of Lahmi's spear was as thick as a weaver's beam!
New Life Bible
There was war with the Philistines again. Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite. Goliath's spear was as big as the cross-piece of a cloth-maker.
New Revised Standard
Again there was war 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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there again came to be a battle with the Philistines, - and Elhanan son of Jair smote Lahmi, brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear, was like a weaver's beam.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Another battle also was fought against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus the son of Saltus a Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath the Gethite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
Revised Standard Version
And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elha'nan the son of Ja'ir slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Young's Literal Translation
And there is again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair smiteth Lahmi, brother of Goliath the Gittite, the wood of whose spear [is] like a beam of weavers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

Contextual Overview

4 Afterwarde arose there warre at Gasar with the Philistynes. Then Sibechai ye Husathite smote Sibai, which was one of the children of Rephaim, and he subdued him. 5 And there arose warre agayne wt the Philistynes. The Elhamah ye sonne of Iair smote Lahemi ye brother of Goliath ye Gathite, whose speares staff was life a weeuers lome. 6 Afterwarde was there a battayll at Gath, where there was a man of a greate stature, yt had sixe fyngers and sixe toes, which make foure and twentye. And he was borne also of Rapha, and spake despytefully vnto Israel. 7 But Ionathas the sonne of Simea Dauids brother smote him. 8 These were the childre of Rapha at Gath, & fell thorow ye hande of Dauid, and of his seruauntes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jair: 2 Samuel 21:19, Jaare-oregim

Goliath: 1 Samuel 17:4, 1 Samuel 21:9, 1 Samuel 22:10, 2 Samuel 21:19

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:7 - the staff 1 Chronicles 11:23 - a spear

Cross-References

Joshua 22:22
The mightie God ye LORDE, the mightie God the LORDE knoweth, and Israel knoweth also, yf this be a trangressynge or trespacynge agaynst the LORDE, then let it not helpe vs this daye:
1 Kings 9:4
And yf thou walke before me (as thy father Dauid walked) with a perfecte and a true hert, so that thou do all that I haue commaunded the, and kepe myne ordinaunces and lawes,
2 Kings 20:3
Remembre (O LORDE) that I haue walked faithfully before the, & with a perfecte hert, and haue done yt which is good in thy syghte. And Ezechias wepte sore.
1 Chronicles 29:17
I knowe my God, that thou tryest the hert, and that vnfaynednes is acceptable vnto the: therfore haue I geue all this with an vnfayned hert, eue with a good wyll, and now haue I had ioye to se thy people (which here are present) offre with a fre wyll vnto the.
Job 33:9
I am clene without eny fawte, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me.
Psalms 7:8
The LORDE is iudge ouer the people: Auenge me then (o LORDE) acordinge to my rightuousnes & innocency.
Psalms 24:4
Eue he yt hath innocet hodes & a clene herte: which lifteth not vp his mynde vnto vanite, & sweareth not to disceaue.
Psalms 25:21
Let innocency and rightuous dealinge wayte vpon me, for my hope is in the.
Psalms 26:6
I wa?she my hondes with innocency O LORDE, and so go I to thine aulter.
Psalms 73:13
Shulde I then clense my hert in vayne (thought I) & wash my hondes in innocency?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 20:1".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal reference and notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 20:5. Elhanan the son of Jair2 Samuel 21:19. The Targum says, "David, the son of Jesse, a pious man, who rose at midnight to sing praises to God, slew Lachmi, the brother of Goliath, the same day on which he slew Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff was like a weaver's beam."


 
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