Giants and Enoch

errancy@freethought.tamu.edu errancy@freethought.tamu.edu
Mon, 20 Nov 95 08:04 CST (00816897840, 951120090028_28247374@mail02.mail.aol.com)


RH The 2 Chron 20:5 reference refers to the brother of Goliath without the phrase being italicized. I suspect the translators added the phrase into the 2 Samuel 21:19 to reflect the information found in 2 Chronicles.

TILL So if the Chronicle writer's version of the story is true, then the writer of second Samuel made an error. Elhanan didn't kill Goliath; he killed Goliath's brother. How then can you argue that the Bible is inerran?.

I suggest that a more likely explanation for the variation is that the Chronicle writer (who wrote his work after the books of Samuel) recognized the discrepancy and tried to correct it.