This chapter runs parallel with 2 Samuel 5 as far as 1 Chronicles 11:9, after which it is to be compared with 2 Samuel 23:8 as far as 1 Chronicles 11:40, the remainder 1 Chronicles 11:41 being an addition, to which Samuel has nothing corresponding. Compare throughout the notes in Samuel.... [ Continue Reading ]
The narrative here given fills out a manifest defect in 2 Samuel 5:8 where something has evidently dropped out of the text. The prowess of Joab on this occasion, and the part which he took in the building of the city of David 1 Chronicles 11:8, are known to us only from this passage of Chronicles.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRENGTHENED THEMSELVES - Or “exerted themselves” - “strenuously assisted with all Israel in making David king.” This list of David’s principal heroes belongs, therefore, to his reign at Hebron. In Samuel the list is not given until nearly the end of David’s reign 2 Samuel 23:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHIEF OF THE CAPTAINS - Or, “of the thirty,” according to another and better reading (see 1Ch 11:15, 1 Chronicles 11:25; compare 2 Samuel 23:8 note). Jashobeam was the commander of the first monthly course of 24,090 soldiers 1 Chronicles 27:2. He is probably the warrior of the name who joined David... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare this passage with 2 Samuel 23:9. BARLEY - In 2 Samuel 23:11, “lentiles.” The words for barley and lentils are so similar in the Hebrew that we may fairly explain the diversity by an accidental corruption.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIVE CUBITS HIGH - About 7 ft. 6 in. high. The height is not so great as that recorded of other giants.... [ Continue Reading ]
etc. The list of names here given corresponds generally with that in 2 Samuel 23:24, but presents several remarkable differences. (1) the number in Chronicles is 47; the number in Samuel is 31. (2) Four names in the list of Chronicles are not in Samuel. (3) five names in Samuel are not in Chronic... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF HASHEM - It is impossible that this can be the true reading, since an individual warrior must be spoken of. Comparing 2 Samuel 23:32, perhaps the most probable conjecture is that the “Beni-Hashem” of Chronicles and the “Beni Jashen” of Samuel alike conceal some single name of a man which... [ Continue Reading ]