Num 13:22, Deu 1:28, 2:10, 3:11, 9:2, 1Sa 17:4-7, 2Sa 21:20-22, 1Ch 11:23 | TSK | STEP

Numbers 13:22

Ahiman.

Jos 11:21,22; 15:13,14; Jud 1:10

the children.

Hebron.

Ge 13:18; 23:2; Jos 14:13-15; 21:13; 2Sa 2:1,11

Zoan.

Ps 78:12,43; Isa 19:11; 30:4

Deuteronomy 1:28

discouraged. Heb. melted.

20:8; *marg:

Ex 15:15; Jos 2:9,11,24; *marg:

Jos 14:8; Isa 13:7; Eze 21:7

The people.

9:1,2; Nu 13:28-33

walled.That is, with very high walls, which could not be easily scaled. Harmer says, high walls are still to be seen in Arabia, and are deemed a sufficient defence against the Arabs, who scarcely ever attempt to plunder except on horseback. The monastery on Mount Sinai, and the convent of St. Anthony in Egypt, are surrounded with a very high wall, without gates; the persons and things being taken up and let down through an opening in the upper part, by means of a pulley and a basket. This kind of walling is a sufficient defence.

we have seen.

9:2; Jos 11:22; 15:14; Jud 1:10,20; 2Sa 21:16-22

Deuteronomy 2:10

All the nations here mentioned appear to have been the posterity of Ham, who lay under the prophetical curse of Noah, which was thus executed upon this part of them by the Moabites and Edomites.

11; Ge 14:5

Deuteronomy 3:11

giants.

Ge 14:5

Rabbath.

2Sa 12:26; Jer 49:2; Eze 21:20; Am 1:14

Rabbah. nine cubits.

1Sa 17:4; Am 2:9

Deuteronomy 9:2

great.

2:11,12,21

Who can stand.

7:24; Ex 9:11; Job 11:10; Da 8:4; 11:16; Na 1:6

1 Samuel 17:4-7

Goliath.

23; 21:9,10; 2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 20:5

of Gath.

27:4; Jos 11:22; 2Sa 21:16-22; 1Ch 20:4-8

whose height.

De 3:11; 1Ch 11:23; Am 2:9

six cubits.According to Bp. Cumberland's calculation, the height of Goliath was about eleven feet ten inches; but Parkhurst estimating the ordinary cubit at seventeen inches and a half, calculates that he was nine feet six inches high. Few instances can be produced of men who can be compared with him. Pliny says, "The tallest man that hath been seen in our days was one name Gabara, who, in the days of Claudius, the late Emperor, was brought out of Arabia: he was nine feet nine inches." Josephus mentions a Jew, named Eleazar, whom Vitellius sent to Rome, who was seven cubits, or ten feet two inches high. Becanus saw a man near ten feet, and a woman that was full ten feet. And, to mention no more, a man of the name of John Middleton, born at Hale, near Warrington, in Lancashire, in the reign of James the First, was more than nine feet high. Dr. Plott, in his history of Staffordshire, says, that "his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches, his palms eight inches and a half broad, and his whole height was nine feet three inches; wanting but six inches of the height of Goliath of Gath."

armed. Heb. clothed.

target of brass. or, gorget.

1Ki 10:16; 2Ch 9:15

the staff.

2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 11:23; 20:5