2 Samuel 23:8

_THESE BE THE NAMES OF THE MIGHTY MEN WHOM DAVID HAD: THE TACHMONITE THAT SAT IN THE SEAT, CHIEF AMONG THE CAPTAINS; THE SAME WAS ADINO THE EZNITE: HE LIFT UP HIS SPEAR AGAINST EIGHT HUNDRED, WHOM HE SLEW AT ONE TIME._ These be the names of the mighty men whom David had. This verse should be translated thus:-He who sits in the seat of the Tachmonite (i:e., of Jashobeam the Hachmonite), who was chief among the captains, the same is Adino the Eznite; he lifted up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.-The text is corrupt in this passage; the number 800 should be 300 (Davidson's 'Herm.'). Under Joab he was chief or president of the council of war. The first or highest order was composed of him and his two colleagues, Eleazar [Septuagint, Eleanan] and Shammah [Septuagint, Samaia]. Eleazar seems to have been left to fight the Philistines alone; and on his achieving the vi...

8-39 David once earnestly longed for the water at the well of Bethlehem. It seems to be an instance of weakness. He was thirsty; with the water of that well he had often refreshed himself when a youth, and it was without due thought that he desired it. Were his valiant men so forward to expose themselves, upon the least hint of their prince's mind, and so eager to please him, and shall not we long to approve ourselves to our Lord Jesus, by ready compliance with his will, as shown us by his word, Spirit, and providence? But David poured out the water as a drink-offering to the Lord. Thus he would cross his own foolish fancy, and punish himself for indulging it, and show that he had sober thoughts to correct his rash ones, and knew how to deny himself. Did David look upon that water as very precious which was got at the hazard of these men's blood, and shall not we much more value those b...

Verse 2 Samuel 23:8. _THESE BE THE NAMES OF THE MIGHTY MEN_] This chapter should be collated with the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 11:11; and see _Kennicott's_ First Dissertation on the printed Hebrew text, pages 64-471. _THE TACHMONITE THAT SAT IN THE SEAT_] Literally and properly, _Jashobeam the Hachmonite_. See 1 Chronicles 11:11. _THE SAME_ WAS _ADINO THE EZNITE_] This is a corruption for _he lift_ _up his spear_. See 1 Chronicles 11:11. Eight hundred, whom he slew at one

The duplicate of this passage is in 1 Chronicles 11, where it is in immediate connection with David’s accession to the throne of Israel, and where the mighty men are named as those by whose aid David was made king. The document belongs to the early part of David’s reign. The text of 2 Samuel 23:8 is perhaps to be corrected by comparison with 1 Chronicles 11:11. CHIEF AMONG THE CAPTAINS - There is great doubt about the exact meaning of this phrase. (1) the title is given to two other persons, namely, to Abishai in 2

EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 23:1 NOW THESE BE THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. A long interval separates this psalm from the preceding. The one was written when David had just reached the zenith of his power, and, when still unstained by foul crime, he could claim God's favour as due to his innocence. These last words were David's latest inspired utterance, written, probably, towards the end of the calm period which followed upon his restoration to his throne, and when time and the sense of God's renewed favour had healed the wounds of his soul. DAVID THE SON OF JESSE SAID. It was probably this account of the author, and its personal character, which caused the exclusion of this hymn from the Book of Psalms. It seemed to belong rather to David's private history than to a collection made for use in the public services of the temple....

THESE [BE] THE NAMES OF THE MIGHTY MEN WHOM DAVID HAD,.... Besides Joab his general, who is not mentioned; for these were all military men under him, which are distinguished into three classes; the first and highest consisted of three only, who were general officers; and the second also of three, who perhaps were colonels of regiments; and the third of thirty, who were captains of thousands and hundreds: THE TACHMONITE THAT SAT IN THE SEAT, THE CHIEF AMONG THE CAPTAINS: not in the chief seat in the sanhedrim, and was the head of that, and so had the name of Tachmonite, from his wisdom, as the Jewish writers say; but in the council of war, where he presided under the general, or in his absence, and was, perhaps, lieutenant general, and so over all the captains; and therefore was neither David nor Joab, to whom some of the Rabbins apply these words, as observed by Kimchi; or rather he was...

EZNITE That is, one belonging to Etsen....

3. THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID AND THE RECORD OF THE MIGHTY MEN CHAPTER 23 _ 1. His last words (2 Samuel 23:1)_ 2. The names and records of David's mighty men (2 Samuel 23:8) In his last words an even greater and clearer vision is given to King David. “If Psalms 18 was a grand Hallelujah, with which David quitted the scene of life, these ‘his last words' are the divine attestation of all that he had sung and prophesied in the Psalms concerning the spiritual import of the kingdom which he was to found in accordance with the divine message that Nathan had been commissioned to bring to him. Hence these ‘last words' must be regarded as an inspired prophetic utterance by David, before his death, about th

DAVID'S HEROES (_continued)._ The Three and the Thirty (J). (_Cf._ above.) 2 SAMUEL 23:8. 2 Samuel 23:8 must be emended to read, instead of Josheb, etc., Ishbaal the Hachmonite, chief of the three, he lifted up his spear against eight hundred, etc. 2 Samuel 23:9 should read Eleazar ben Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men, was with David at Pas-dammim (1 Samuel 17:1), when the Philistines were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel retreated. Shammah's exploit was when the Philistines were assembled at Lehi ...

THE MIGHTY MEN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14. This rehearsal comes at the end of David's reign, immediately before the setting up of the kingdom under SOLOMON. Even so will it be, at the time of the end, with the true David. THE TACHMONITE THAT SAT IN THE SEAT. Authorized Version margin and Revised Version text. "Josheb-bassebet the Tachmonite". Really. Ish-bosheth, put for Ish-baal. " man of Baal, son of. Hachmonite "(compare 1 Chronicles 11:11), altered later to Adino. Compare St. Peter's exploit (Acts 2), and Stephen's (2 Samuel 6:7)....