Rapha

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. Son of Benjamin1 Chronicles 8:2
• 2. Also called REPHAIAH
• A descendant of Jonathan1 Chronicles 8:371 Chronicles 9:43
• 3. An ancestor of certain Philistine warriors, (margins)2 Samuel 21:162 Samuel 21:202 Samuel 21:221 Chronicles 20:41 Chronicles 20:61 Chronicles 20:8

The passages, in Bible order (9)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 9 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 2 Samuel 21:16

   Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:161 voice

   “Being girded with a new sword - As the word sword is not in the original, we may apply the term new to his armor in general; he had got new arms, a new coat of mail, or something that defended him well, and rendered him very formidable: or it may mean a strong or sharp sword.

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2. 2 Samuel 21:20

   And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:202 voices

   “On every hand six fingers - This is not a solitary instance: Tavernier informs us that the eldest son of the emperor of Java, who reigned in 1648, had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot. And Maupertuis, in his seventeenth letter, says that he met with two families near Berlin, where sedigitism was equally transmitted on both sides of father and mother.

   “(3.) The most powerful enemies are often reserved for the last conflict. David began his glory with the conquest of one giant, and here concludes it with the conquest of four. Death is a Christian's last enemy, and a son of Anak; but, through him that triumphed for us, we hope to be more than conquerors at last, even over that enemy.

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3. 2 Samuel 21:22

   So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:222 voices

   “These four were born to the giant in Gath,.... Not to Goliath, for one of them was his brother, but to some giant or another of that place, for which it was famous; they were all of them of the race of the giants; and so the Septuagint version, they were"the offspring of the giants in Gath, whose family was Repha;''and this Repha, or Arepha, as the Vulgate Latin version, according to Abarbinel, was a woman of the daughters of the giants; the Talmudists (e) make her to be the same with Orpah, Rth 1:

   “Four - Not necessarily meaning that they were brothers, but that they were all of the race of the Giant, all Rephaim. The word “four” is omitted in the parallel passage, only the three last being mentioned in that chapter.

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4. 1 Chronicles 8:2

   Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

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5. 1 Chronicles 8:37

   Moza was the father of Binea. Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.

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6. 1 Chronicles 9:43

   Moza was the father of Binea. Rephaiah was his son, Elasah his son, and Azel his son.

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7. 1 Chronicles 20:4

   Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

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8. 1 Chronicles 20:6

   And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,

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9. 1 Chronicles 20:8

   So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 20:81 voice

   “These were born unto the giant in Gath - “These were born להרפא leharapha, to that Rapha in Gath, or to Arapha.” So the Vulgate, Septuagint, and Chaldee. The compiler of these books passes by also the incest of Amnon with his sister Tamar, and the rebellion of Absalom, and the awful consequences of all these. These should have preceded the fourth verse.

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