Goliath
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2 Samuel 21 - 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
[The words "the brother of" were inserted by the KJV translators to avoid the obvious contradiction with 1 Samuel 17:49-51.]
Source "Skeptics Annotated Bible ". http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
Answer
The name of the brother of Goliath is given in the verse below from 1 Chronicles. The translators quite properly inserted the 'brother of' due to the likely omission of this by some earlier copyist. That this is an insertion is made clear in all KJV Bibles by italics.
1 Chronicles 20:5 (King James Version)
Thus, the Biblical record makes it clear that David killed Goliath while Elhanan, as clarified with more detail by 1 Chronicles killed Lahmi Goliath's brother.
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