Cross references

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.

2 Samuel 21:16 BSB
  1. a Or the giant; also in verses 18, 20, and 22
  2. b 300 shekels is approximately 7.5 pounds or 3.4 kilograms.

2 Samuel 21:16 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Samuel 21:18 (4 votes) and 2 Samuel 21:20 (4 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 6 to Hebrews 11.

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Which verses does 2 Samuel 21:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, a descendant of Rapha.

  2. And there was also a 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,

  3. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

  4. In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

  5. So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature. We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

  6. Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

  7. (The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

  8. They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,

  9. (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

  10. The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

  11. Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height, and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,

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

Which verses point to 2 Samuel 21:16?

The 10 strongest of 17.