David faces Goliath in single combat.

Goliath (גָּלְיָת, Standard Hebrew Golyat, Tiberian Hebrew Golyāṯ, Arabic: جالوت Jalut), known also as Goliath of Gath (one of five city states of the Philistines), is a Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with the young David, the future king of Israel, described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament (and, more briefly, in the Quran). Goliath may refer to: Goliath, a Biblical giant. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 404 × 563 pixelsFull resolution (404 × 563 pixel, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) David vs. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 404 × 563 pixelsFull resolution (404 × 563 pixel, file size: 69 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) David vs. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Tiberian Hebrew is an oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient forms of Hebrew, especially the Hebrew of the Bible, that was given written form by masoretic scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias in the early middle ages, beginning in the 8th century. ... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ... Gath (גת Hebrew: winepress), a common place name in ancient Israel and the surrounding regions. ... The historic Philistines (see note Philistines below) were a people that inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival of the Israelites, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. ... This article is about the Biblical king of Israel. ... 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum Hebrew Bible is a term that refers to the common portions of the Jewish canon and the Christian canons. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Note: Judaism... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ...

Summary: 1 Samuel 17

David hoists the severed head of Goliath.

This is the account of the battle between David and Goliath given in 1 Samuel, chapter 17:^[1] The young Hebrew David hoists the head of the Philistine Goliath File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The young Hebrew David hoists the head of the Philistine Goliath File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines at Socoh. Each day Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenges the Israelites to send out their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid. David is present, bringing food for his older brothers. He hears Goliath and hears also that Saul has promised to reward any man who will defeat the Philistine champion, and is not afraid. Saul hears of David's words and sends for him, and David offers to fight the Philistine. Saul reluctantly agrees and offers his armour, which David declines in favour of his sling and five stones which he takes from the brook. Saul (שאול המלך) (or Shaul) (Hebrew: , Standard  Tiberian  ; asked for) is identified in the Books of Samuel, 1 Chronicles and the Quran as the first king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. ... Map showing the location of Philistine land and cities of Gaza, Ashdod, and Ashkelon Map of the southern Levant, c. ... Sokho (transliterated thus from the Hebrew; also Sokhoh or Sochoh but not with initial Sh; transliterated Soco from Greek transliterations; spelled שוכה ,שוכו and שכה in Biblical Hebrew and סוכו in Mishnaic Hebrew; meaning perhaps related to fence or hedge), is the name of two towns in Judah from Biblical times. ... This article is about the Biblical king of Israel. ... Home-made sling. ...

David and Goliath confront each other, Goliath with his armour and shield-bearer, David with his staff and sling. "And the Philistine cursed David by his gods", but David replies: "This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand."^[2]

David then strikes Goliath with a stone from his sling, and the Philistine falls on his face to the ground. David seizes the sword of the giant and kills him, and cuts off his head. The Philistines flee and are pursued by the Israelites "as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron". David puts the armour of Goliath in his own tent, and takes the head to Jerusalem. Saul sends Abner to inquire whose son this is who has routed the Philistines and killed their champion; Abner brings David before Saul, who asks him whose son he is, "And David answered, 'I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite'." In the Book of Samuel, Abner (Biblical Hebrew for father of [or is a] light), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army (1 Samuel 14:50, 20:25). ...

Textual considerations

Textual variations

There are significant differences between the Masoretic (Hebrew), Septuagint (Greek), and Dead Sea Scrolls versions of 1 Samuel 17.^[3] One of the most interesting of these relates to Goliath's height: 4QSam(a), the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, gives the height of Goliath as "four cubits and a span," (about six feet six inches), and this is what the 4th century CE Septuagint manuscripts and the 1st century CE historian Josephus also record. Later Septuagint manuscripts and the Masoretic texts read "six cubits and a span," about nine feet six inches.^[4] The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Tanakh approved for general use in Judaism. ... The Septuagint: A column of uncial text from 1 Esdras in the Codex Vaticanus, the basis of Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brentons Greek edition and English translation. ... The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in the West Bank. ... A fanciful representation of Flavius Josephus, in an engraving in William Whistons translation of his works Josephus (37 – sometime after 100 CE),[1] who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Titus Flavius Josephus,[2] was a 1st-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and...

The second major difference lies between the Masoretic text, which forms the basis of modern translations, and early Septuagint manuscripts such as the 4th century CE Codex Vaticanus. Vaticanus does not contain the verses describing David coming each day with food for his brothers, nor 1 Samuel 17:55-58 in which Saul seems unaware of David's identity, referring to him as "this youth" and asking Abner to find out the name of his father. The narrative therefore reads that Goliath is challenging the Israelites to combat, the Israelites are afraid, and David, already with Saul, accepts the challenge.^[5] The shorter Septuagint version removes a number of ambiguities which have puzzled commentators: it removes 1 Samuel 17:55-58 in which Saul seems not to know David, despite having taken him as one of his shield-bearers and harpist; it removes 1 Samuel 17:50, the presence of which makes it seem as if David kills Goliath twice, once with his sling and then again with a sword;^[6] and it gives David a clear reason, as Saul's personal shield-bearer, for accepting Goliath's challenge. Scholars drawing on studies of oral transmission and folklore have concluded that the non-Septuagint material "is a folktale grafted onto the initial text of ... 1 Samuel."^[7]. Page from Codex Vaticanus Graece 1209, B/03 The Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. ...

Elhanan and Goliath

2 Samuel 21:19^[8] tells how "Goliath the Gittite" was killed by "Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite." The resulting ambiguity - what was the relationship of this Goliath to the Goliath killed by David in 1 Samuel 17? - has given rise to a great deal of commentary. 1 Chronicles 20,^[9] written in the 4th century BCE, resolved the problem by saying that Elhanan "slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath," constructing the name Lahmi from the last portion of the word "Bethlehemite" ("beit-ha'lahmi").^[10] The King James Bible and many modern bibles have adopted this into their translation of 2 Samuel 21:18-19, although the Hebrew text makes no mention of the word "brother". 2 Samuel 21 appears to be an extremely corrupt passage: "Jaare-oregim," the name of Elhanan's father, means a nonsensical "forest of weaver's beams", and seems to have been copied from Goliath's weaponry (Goliath has a spear "with a shaft like a weaver's beam"). Dr. Baruch Halpern believes that David's opponent probably had no name originally, being referred to simply as "the Philistine" (the name Goliath is applied to him only twice in 1 Samuel 17): "Most likely, storytellers displaced the deed from the otherwise obscure Elhanan onto the more famous character, David."^[11] The biblical Elhanan was the son of Jaareoregim. ... (Redirected from 1 Chronicles) The Book of Chronicles is a book in the Hebrew Bible (also see Old Testament). ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ...

Goliath's name

Potsherd inscribed with the two names "alwt" and "wlt", etymologically related to the name Goliath

Tell es-Safi, the biblical Gath and traditional home of Goliath, has been the subject of extensive excavations by Israel's Bar-Ilan University. The archaeologists have established that this was one of the largest of the Philistine cities until destroyed in the 9th century BC, an event from which it never recovered. An important find relating to Goliath is the discovery of a potsherd, reliably dated to the 10th to mid 9th centuries BC, inscribed with the two names "alwt" and "wlt". While the names are not directly connected with the biblical Goliath, they are etymologically related, and demonstrate that the name fits with the context of late-10th/early-9th century BC Philistine culture. The name "Goliath" itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian name "Alyattes", which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story.^[12] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2015x1452, 195 KB) Summary Tell es-Safi dig staff site: http://faculty. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2015x1452, 195 KB) Summary Tell es-Safi dig staff site: http://faculty. ... Tell es-Safi or Tel Zafit is usually identified as Gath, one of the ancient Canaanite and Philistine five cities (along with Gaza, Ekron, Ashkelon, and Ashdod), an identification that is well-based both on the historical sources related to this site and the archaeological evidence from the site. ... Bar-Ilan University (BIU, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן) is a university in Ramat Gan, Israel. ... Lydia (Greek ) is a historic region of western Anatolia, congruent with Turkeys modern provinces of İzmir and Manisa. ...

Goliath and the Greeks

An identical story appears in the Iliad, with Nestor taking the role of David and battle with Ereuthalion instead of Goliath.^[13]This has raised the question of the relationship between the two. The Greek story is legendary. The Biblical story is presented as historical. The parallels are as follows:- title page of the Rihel edition of ca. ...

• Nestor is a young warrior who defeats a giant. David is a young shepherd who defeats a giant.
• The giant, Ereuthalion/Goliath, wields a distinctive weapon: an iron club in Ereuthalion's case; a massive iron head on his spear, in Goliath's case. Such a parallel.
• The giant, dressed in armour, comes out of the enemy's massed array to challenge all the warriors in the opposing army.
• The fighters in the Greek and Hebrew armies are all intimidated.
• The youngest of a large family, in each case, elects to confront the huge warrior. Nestor is the 12th. child of Neleus, David the 8th. son of Jesse.
• The Greek's father tries to stop his son from accepting the challenge, on the grounds he is too young and inexperienced. Saul gives similar reasons when trying to stop David from taking up the challenge.
• Divine support comes to the aid of both young warriors.
• Nestor, fighting on foot, takes the chariot of his enemy. David, on foot, takes the sword of his giant victim.
• The warrior is left sprawling on the ground.
• The enemy in both cases flees when their champion is felled, and as slaughtered respectively, in flight, by the pursuant Pylians and Hebrews.
• The duel takes place by a river, Iardanos, in the Greek account, and the river is unidentifiable in local topology, and a very rare rivername in Greek, but is close to the Hebrew name for the Jordan (Heb.Yardēn). David's battle, however did not take place there.
• The pursuit ends at a certain place (how specific), and the victors return with their booty, and the young hero is acclaimed by the people.^[14]

Azzan Yadin has also suggested that the designation of Goliath as a איש הביניים, “man of the in-between” (a longstanding difficulty in translating 1 Samuel 17) appears to be a borrowing from Greek 'man of the metaikhmion (μεταίχμιον).' The word may have one of the following meanings. ... Neleus was the son of Poseidon and Tyro, brother of Pelias. ... For other uses, see Jesse (disambiguation). ... Azzan Yadin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. ...

In 2004 Yadin also suggested that the armour described in 1 Samuel 17 is typical of Greek armour of the 6th century BCE rather than of Philistine armour of the 10th century, and that narrative formulae such as the settlement of battle by single combat between champions is characteristic of the Homeric epics (the Iliad) but not of the ancient Near East.^[15] Steven McKenzie has supported a late date for the biblical story, comparing Goliath's helmet, in particular, to 7th century BC Assyrian helmets, which, lacking a nosepiece, would have enabled David to strike his opponent in the forehead; but McKenzie's dating has been disputed on the basis of a 12th century BC Mycenaean vase depicting "marching warriors, clad in helmets with nosepieces, coats of mail, and leg guards, carry[ing] a long spear."^[16] The question of whether Goliath's armour, as described in 1 Samuel 17, is or is not anachronistic is the subject of some dispute. In 1950 E. A. Speiser connected the Hebrew word used for Goliath's coat of mail to a source from Nuzi (a site near modern Kirkuk, Kurdistan), noting that scaled armour has been found as far back as the middle of the second millennium BCE.^[17] The historic Philistines (see note Philistines below) were a people that inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival of the Israelites, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. ... For other uses, see Assyria (disambiguation). ... Ephraim Avigdor Speiser (January 24, 1902–June 15, 1965) was University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Nuzi was an ancient city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Iraq, located near the Tigris river. ...

Later traditions

Jewish

The authors of the Babylonian Talmud gave Goliath a pedigree suited to his character as the adversary of David: Sotah 42b tells that he was a son of Orpah, the sister-in-law of Ruth, David's own grandmother. The Ruth Rabbah, a haggadic and homiletic interpretation of the Book of Ruth, makes the blood-relationship even closer, considering Orpah and Ruth to have been full sisters. Orpah was said to have made a pretense of accompanying Ruth but after forty paces left her; thereafter she led a dissolute life, so that the identity of Goliath's father was impossible to ascertain. The first page of the Talmud, in the standard Vilna edition. ... Nashim (Women) is the third order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud), containing the laws related to women and family life. ... Orpah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. ... The name Ruth can refer to: The Book of Ruth, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. ... Ruth Rabbah (Hebrew: רות רבה) is an haggadic and homiletic interpretation of the Book of Ruth, which, like that of the four other scrolls (megillot), is included in the Midrash Rabbot. ... Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab by William Blake, 1795 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Ruth in Boazs Field, 1828 The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, the Scroll of Ruth) is one of the books of the Ketuvim (Writings) of the Tanakh (the... Orpah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. ...

The Talmud stresses Goliath's ungodliness: his taunts before the Israelites included the boast that it was he who had captured the Ark of the Covenant and brought it to the temple of Dagon; and his challenges to combat were made at morning and evening in order to disturb the Israelites in their prayers. His armour weighed 60 tons, according to rabbi Hanina; 120, according to rabbi Abba bar Kahana; and his sword, which became the sword of David, had marvellous powers. On his death it was found that his heart carried the image of Dagon, who thereby also came to a shameful downfall.^[18] The Ark of the Covenant (ארון הברית in Hebrew: aron habrit) is described in the Hebrew Bible as a sacred container, wherein rested the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments as well as other sacred Israelite objects. ... Dagon was a major northwest Semitic god, reportedly of grain and agriculture. ... Chaninah, also called Haninah, Chananiah, etc. ...

In Pseudo-Philo, believed to have been composed between 135 BCE and 70 CE, David picks up seven stones and writes on them the names of his fathers, his own name, and the name of God, one name per stone; then, speaking to Goliath, he says: "Hear this word before you die: were not the two woman from whom you and I were born, sisters? and your mother was Orpah and my mother Ruth..." After David strikes Goliath with the stone he runs to Goliath before he dies and Goliath says, "Hurry and kill me and rejoice," and David replies, "Before you die, open your eyes and see your slayer;" Goliath sees an angel and tells David that it is not he who has killed him but the angel. Pseudo-Philo then goes on to say that the angel of the Lord changes David's appearance so that no one recognizes him, and thus Saul asks who he is.^[19] Pseudo-Philo is the name commonly used for a Jewish pseudepigraphical work in Latin, so called because it was transmitted along with Latin translations of the works of Philo of Alexandria but is very obviously not written by Philo. ...

Christian

The early Christian church, seeking "types" (fore-runners, prefigurations) for its own beliefs and history throughout the Jewish scriptures, found a rich lode of metaphores in the stories of David: David's marriage of Bathsheba was seen as a model of the church's wooing of the community of believers away from the discredited Jewish faith, his speech to followers during the flight from Absalom was a prefiguring of Jesus's farewell speech to his disciples, and the battle with Goliath symbolised the church's eternal but victorious battle with Satan.^[20] Bathsheba (בת שבע) is the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of King David in the Hebrew Bible. ...

Modern references

Goliath used as an unflattering symbol for the United States as a global superpower: in this protest banner, at a demonstration in Vienna, 2005, the text translates as "Tie Goliath's hands—he's gone crazy". ( Details)

• The lead character in Disney's animated series "Gargoyles" was called Goliath and according to dialogue in the first episode is so strong that he was named for "Philistine Giant who battle David." (Ironically, his chief enemy was a now reformed villain named David--full name David Xanatos.)

• In the Real-time strategy game StarCraft, the Goliath is a mechanical combat unit used by the Terran race in the intergalactic war against the Protoss and Zerg.

• A toy vehicle set in the 1980s M.A.S.K. toyline was named Goliath; it consisted of a race car which transformed into a jet, and the race car's transport truck with transformed into a missile launcher.

• The British Royal Navy had several successive ships bearing the name HMS Goliath. One of them took part in the Napoleonic Wars, and a later one in The First World War.

• One of the two shipyard cranes that dominate the Belfast skyline is nicknamed Goliath. The other crane is nicknamed Samson.

• The World's Largest bear, of Space Farms Zoo and Museum in Sussex NJ was honorably named "Goliath". The record holding bear lived between 1972-1991.

• The world's heaviest beetle, and by far the largest member of the scarab family, measuring as much as a sparrow but weighing in at five times a sparrow's weight, is called the goliath beetle.

• In the TV series Knight Rider, Goliath is the name of Kitt's Arch nemesis, an indestructible trailer truck.

• In another computer game, Battlefield 2142, in the expansion pack Northern Strike there is a vehicle of the EU team called the Goliath. It is a huge armored APC which is considered the hardest vehicle to destroy as it has regenerating armor, and requires certain panels on it to be destroyed before becoming vulnerable. It is the biggest drivable vehicle in the game (drivable, as in not a Titan).

• A VLF RADCOM Antenna type. The Goliath will have a mast at each of the six corners and one in the center of each canopy.

• The Israeli Rock band Kaveret composed and sung a song called "Goliath" telling the tale of the 6 Day War through the tale of David and Goliath.

• The Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames released a song "Goliaths Disarm Their Davids" on their 1997 mini-CD Black-Ash Inheritance.

• Davey and Goliath, the 1960s Art Clokey-animated Lutheran Church in America-sponsored children's television program gives the names of the chief characters of the David and Goliath story to its main characters, Davey Hansen and his dog, Goliath.

• Goliath is the name of the Triax army's giant tank/mobile land fortress in the 1989 Kenner toy line Mega Force.

• A form of battle armor ridden by Vile in Capcom's SNES/PSX game "Mega Man X3" bears the title Goliath.

• In Pro Evolution Soccer 6 a special selection team is named "Goliaths" because all players are very tall

• Goliaths are an extremely strong (and somewhat clumsy) race in the Dungeons & Dragons supplement Races of Stone, where they are considered "medium" sized, but have the "strong body" ability that treats them to be one size larger when it suits them.

• The Mars Volta's 2007 album is titled "The Bedlam in Goliath" and features a track titled "Goliath'

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Goliath at the movies

The Italians used Goliath as an action superhero in a series of Biblical adventure films (peplums) in the early 1960s. He was possessed of amazing strength, and the films were similar in theme to their Hercules and Maciste movies. After the classic Hercules (1957) became a blockbuster sensation in the film industry, a 1959 Steve Reeves film, Terror of the Barbarians, was retitled Goliath and the Barbarians in 1960 in the USA. The film was so successful at the box office it inspired Italian filmmakers to do a series of four films featuring a beefcake hero named Goliath. (The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath, starring Orson Welles, was not part of this series, as it was a straightforward adaptation of the original Biblical story). For other uses, see Hercules (disambiguation). ... Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

The titles in the Italian "Goliath" peplum series were as follows:

• Goliath Against the Giants (1960) starring Brad Harris as Goliath.
• Goliath and the Rebel Slave (aka The Tyrant of Lydia vs. The Son of Hercules, 1963) starring Gordon Scott as Goliath (Note: this film was sold directly to American TV in a syndication package known as Sons of Hercules, in this case referring to Goliath as a Son of Hercules, simply for marketing reasons).
• Goliath and the Masked Rider (aka Hercules and the Masked Rider, 1964) starring Alan Steel as Goliath. (This film was marketed on USA television as a Hercules movie)
• Goliath at the Conquest of Baghdad (aka Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus, 1964) starring Peter Lupus as Goliath.

The name Goliath was also used in the film titles of a few other Italian movies that were retitled for distribution in the USA in an attempt to cash in on the Goliath craze, but these films were not originally Goliath movies in Italy. Both Goliath and the Vampires (1961) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963) featured the famed superhero Maciste in the original Italian versions, but American distributors didn't feel the name Maciste would have any meaning to American audiences. Goliath and the Dragon (1960) was originally an Italian Hercules movie called The Revenge of Hercules, and it is a mystery to this day why U.S. distributors didn't market the film under that title, since Hercules films always tended to do much better at the box office than Goliath movies.

The 1986 film Hoosiers involves a final scene which a small-town high school basketball team takes on a big-city team for the Indiana state championship. In the final moments before the small-town team from "Hickory" takes the court, the passage describing how, "David took a stone from the bag and slung it... knocking the Philistine to the ground" is read to inspire the team. This page is about the movie Hoosiers. Hoosiers is also the nickname of Indiana University athletic teams; see Indiana Hoosiers. ...

In 2004, Lightstone Studios released a direct-to-dvd movie musical titled "One Smooth Stone," which was later changed to "David and Goliath." It is part of the Liken the Scriptures (Now just "Liken") series of movie musicals on DVD based on scripture stories.

Notes

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External links

• Goliath - Bible Verses pertaining to Goliath
• Sword and sandal (film genre)
• The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
• Animated David & Goliath at the Internet Movie Database
• One Smooth Stone (David and Goliath) at the Internet Movie Database

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See also

• Battle of Ain Jalut ('Battle of Goliath Well')