And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,.... Another battle with them in the same place:where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite; the word "brother" is rightly supplied from 1Ch 20:5; where his name is said to be Lahmi, for not Goliath himself was slain, though some so interpret it, and take Elhanan to be David; so Jarchi, and with which agrees the Targum; but he was slain not at Gob, but in the valley of Elah, nor had David any such name as Elhanan; he was one of David's worthies, 2Sa 23:24; where he is called the son of Dodo, and in 1Ch 20:5, the son of Jair; and Lahmi there may not be the name of Goliath's brother, but, as here, the country name of Elhanan; for the words there may be rendered,"and Elhanan the son of Jair, the Lehemite (i.
e. the Bethlehemite), slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,''and so perfectly agrees, with this:the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam; not of Goliath's brother, but of Goliath himself, 1Sa 17:7.
Vid. Buxtorf. Anticritic. par. 2. c. 2. p.