Many people say that that the giant died when David threw the stone at his forehead. But The Bible clearly specifies in 1 Samuel 17:51 "therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of his sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it." Basically Goliath was decapitated.
Jewish tradition places his death in the early part of the 9th century BCE.
David killed Goliath by hitting him with a stone thrown from a slingshot.
I don't know who killed Goliath with five stones, but i do know who killed Goliath with ONE stone and that was David.
David killed Goliath with a slingshot.A second version of the story says that Elhanan, son of Jair, from Bethlehem, killed Goliath. Explanations include:Elhanan was David's name at one point in his lifeStory tellers changed the story from the lesser known individual to David the King.Elhanan killed Goliath's brother.
The name of Goliath's son killed by David's son is Ishbi-Benob.
David killed Goliath.
David killed Goliath with a stone.
David was 'only a youth' when he killed Goliath [say, 17] and 70 when he died in about 971BC. This would make it about 1024BC when he killed Goliath.
When David killed Goliath he was a small boy, Jonathan was the son of saul and they were the same age and friends.
Goliath, the Philistine giant, was stunned by a stone from the slingshot of David, future king of Israel. David then killed Goliath with his (Goliath's) own sword.
The Bible says the birds ate the flesh off of Goliath's corpse leaving nothing but the skeleton behind. No one knows what happened to Goliath's body after David killed him.
As the story is told, it was just a pebble fired from a sling.
David killed the giant Goliath.