2 Samuel 23:39

Uriah See on ch. 2 Samuel 11:3.

thirty and seven in all This total is obtained either (a) by reckoning threein the first class (2 Samuel 23:8), twoin the second (2 Samuel 23:18), and thirty-twoin the third (2 Samuel 23:24), emending 2 Samuel 23:34 by the help of Chron. so as to contain three names: or (b) if the text of 2 Samuel 23:34 is retained, by counting threein the second class, though only two are mentioned by name. Joab, as commander-in-chief, is not reckoned in the total.

In 1 Chronicles 11:41-47 sixteen additional names are given, possibly either of those who became members of the body when its number was not rigidly limited to thirty, or of those who took the places vacated by death.