Hittite] So he belonged to one of the original inhabitants of the country. We might expect to find some of them among David's followers: cp. 1 Samuel 22:2. Uriah, another Hittite, played an important part in David's history. Abishai] is here mentioned for the first time. He saved David's life in one of the Philistine wars (2 Samuel 21:17), was implicated in the murder of Abner (2 Samuel 3:30), shared the command of the army (2 Samuel 10:10), and remained faithful to David in Absalom's rebellion.

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