Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the three mighties—Only two are mentioned; namely, Jashobeam and Eleazar—the third, Shammah (II Samuel 23:11), is not named in this passage.
Jashobeam, an Hachmonite—or, "son of Hachmoni." He is called also son of Zabdiel (I Chronicles 27:2), so that, strictly speaking, he was the grandson of Hachmoni (compare I Chronicles 27:32).
lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time—The feat is said (II Samuel 23:8) to have been a slaughter of eight hundred in one day. Some endeavor to reconcile the statements in that passage and in this by supposing that he slew eight hundred on one occasion and three hundred on another; while others conjecture that he attacked a body of eight hundred, and, having slain three hundred of them, the rest fled [LIGHTFOOT].
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