Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Amasai - The marginal reference identifies him with Amasa, David' s nephew, but it seems unlikely that David would have misdoubted a band led by his own nephew.
The passionate earnestness of Amasai' s speech is strongly marked in the original, and will be better seen by omitting the words which our Version adds in italics. Here, as in I Chronicles 12:8-15, we have manifestly the actual words of a very ancient record.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Chronicles 12:18:
2 Samuel 23:8
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