Ishbi-benob - A corrupt reading. The whole passage should perhaps read as follows: And David grew faint. So they halted in Gob (as in [R…

Ishbi-benob. —The name is a strange one, and it is generally thought that some error has crept into the text, but none of the sugg…

And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant
Of Goliath, or of a giant, of the race of them:

These events seem to have taken place towards the end of David's reign. David fainted, but he did not flee, and God sent help in the time of need. …