{"id":758,"date":"2023-01-29T17:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=758"},"modified":"2023-01-29T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T17:13:13","slug":"the-battle-of-david-and-goliath-did-not-take-place-as-described-in-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/religious-content\/bible\/the-battle-of-david-and-goliath-did-not-take-place-as-described-in-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of David and Goliath Did Not Take Place as Described in the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story is well known – David the boy, in his first famous battle, kills the Philistine giant Goliath: “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span … And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam”<\/i><\/font> (1 Samuel 17:4-7). In today’s terms, this is a giant about 10 feet tall. The version of the story found in the Dead Sea Scrolls is milder: “four cubits and a span”<\/i><\/font> (about 6.5 feet).<\/p>\n

In other places in the Bible, another person, not David, killed Goliath – or his brother:<\/p>\n

“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”<\/i><\/font> (2 Samuel 21:19).<\/p>\n

“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”<\/i><\/font> (1 Chronicles 20:5).<\/p>\n

And what does the boy David do after he kills Goliath? “And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem”<\/i><\/font> (1 Samuel 17:54). But according to the biblical story, King David conquers Jerusalem only years<\/b> later: “And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying … thou shalt not come in hither … Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David”<\/i><\/font> (2 Samual 5:6-7).<\/p>\n

Goliath’s battle uniform is also interesting: “And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders”<\/i><\/font> (1 Samuel 17:5-6). The author of the story describes armor that fits the later period in which the story was written, and not the period it was written about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story is well known – David the boy, in his first famous battle, kills the Philistine giant Goliath: “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span … And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology-and-history","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}