Elhanan of Bethlehem

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Elhanan of Bethlehem

biblical figure

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Goliath
…was slain by a certain Elhanan of Bethlehem in one of David’s later conflicts with the Philistines (II Samuel 21:18–22). This may be a transcriptural error as the parallel account in I Chronicles 20:5 avoids the contradiction by reading “Elhanan . . . slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath.”
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…was slain by a certain Elhanan of Bethlehem in one of David’s later conflicts with the Philistines (II Samuel 21:18–22). This may be a transcriptural error as the parallel account in I Chronicles 20:5 avoids the contradiction by reading “Elhanan . . . slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath.”
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