1 Chronicles 11:12
the three mighties—Only two are mentioned; namely, Jashobeam and Eleazar—the third, Shammah (II Samuel 23:11), is not named in this passage.
The Mighty Men of David
10 Now athese were the heads of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to bthe word of the Lord concerning Israel.
11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: aJashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, bchief of the captains; he had lifted up his spear against three hundred, killed by him at one time.
12 After him was Eleazar the son of aDodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.
13 He was with David at1 Pasdammim. Now there the Philistines were gathered for battle, and there was a piece of ground full of barley. So the people fled from the Philistines.
14 But they1 stationed themselves in the middle of that field, defended it, and killed the Philistines. So the Lord brought about a great victory.
15 Now three of the thirty chief men awent down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines encamped bin the Valley of Rephaim.
16 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
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Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Chronicles 11:11-13
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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