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Tim Maas
How many sons did Goliath the giant have?
This is one of my questions for my 40 days in the word from the beginning of Lent until Easter. Please provide scripture.
1 Samuel 17:1 - 58
ESV - 1 Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.
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Tim Maas
By my interpretation of relevant texts, Goliath (who was himself the son of a giant) had three brothers, but there is no biblical reference to Goliath having had any sons. This is consistent with the wording of 2 Samuel 21:19 ("And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.) and 2 Samuel 21:22 ("These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants")
"The giant in Gath" mentioned in the verse is referring to Goliath's father. Of those sons of the giant listed between verses 15 and 21, none were slain by David. So it would seem that Goliath is also a son of the giant, making him a brother to the others. There is no specific reference to any sons of Goliath himself.
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