2 Samuel 23:9

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7 But the man who touches them
Must be¹ armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,
And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

David’s Mighty Men

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had:¹ Josheb-Basshebeth the Tachmonite, chief among the captains. He was called Adino the Eznite, because he had killed eight hundred men at one time.

9 And after him was ^aEleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel had retreated.

10 He arose and attacked the Philistines until his hand was ^aweary, and his hand stuck to the sword. The Lord brought about a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to ^bplunder.

11 And after him was ^aShammah the son of Agee the Hararite. ^bThe Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a piece of ground full of lentils. So the people fled from the Philistines.

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2 Samuel 23:9

Gone away - Rather, went up to battle (II Samuel 5:19; II Kings 3:21, etc.) against them. These words and what follows as far as "troop" II Samuel 23:11 have fallen out of the text in Chronicles. The effect of this is to omit EIeazar' s feat, as here described, to attribute to him Shammah' s victory, to misplace the flight of the Israelites, and to omit Shammah altogether from the list of David' s mighty men.

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