1 Samuel 17:8
8He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and aare you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.2 Samuel 21:16-22
16And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants bof the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. 17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, d“You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench ethe lamp of Israel.” 18 fAfter this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then gSibbecai hthe Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants iof the giants. 19And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and jElhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, kthe shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. ▼
▼Contrast 1 Chronicles 20:5, which may preserve the original reading
20And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended mfrom the giants. 21And when nhe taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck him down. 22These four were descended ofrom the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. Psalms 68:31
31Nobles shall come from pEgypt;qCush shall hasten to rstretch out her hands to God.
Isaiah 19:11
11 The princes of sZoan are utterly foolish;the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise,
a son of ancient kings”?
Isaiah 19:23-25
23 tIn that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, uand the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.24In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, va blessing in the midst of the earth, 25whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt wmy people, and Assyria xthe work of my hands, and yIsrael my inheritance.”
Ezekiel 28:2
2 z“Son of man, say to aathe prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:ab“Because your heart is proud,
and acyou have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet adyou are but a man, and no god,
aethough you make your heart like the heart of a god—
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