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1 Chronicles 11:13

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He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At the place with a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

KJV

He was with David at Pas–dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 11

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Compare this passage with 2Sa 23:9-10. Barley - In 2Sa 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.

This site's exposition

against three hundred slain by him at one time

on 1 Chronicles 11:11-14

Jashobeam heads the roll with a feat Samuel and Chronicles number differently, three hundred here against eight hundred at 2 Sam 23:8, a variant the bench treats as textual rather than resolves. Eleazar's stand at Pas-dammim, where the army fled and he held a plot of barley alone, parallels 2 Sam 23:9-10 closely enough that the word for barley there is read by some as lentiles, the two Hebrew words being easily confused. The Lord saved them by a great deliverance, verse 14's own verdict on a fight two men held after everyone else ran.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the L ORD ; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the L ORD by Samuel. 4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jashobeam, an Hachmonite--or, "son of Hachmoni." He is called also son of Zabdiel (1Ch 27:2), so that, strictly speaking, he was the grandson of Hachmoni (compare 1Ch 27:32). lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time--The feat is said (2Sa 23:8) to have been a slaughter of eight hundred in one day.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

He was with David at Pas-dammim--It was at the time when he was a fugitive in the wilderness, and, parched with thirst under the burning heat of noonday, he wistfully thought of the cool fountain of his native village [2Sa 23:15;

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

he was among the three mighty men He was included in the three mighty men; he was one of them. And these three were mightier than the rest of the thirty three mentioned nearby.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 11:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הֽוּא־he

    hu'-H1931 →1879 times

  • הָיָ֨הhe was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • דָּוִ֜ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • בַּפַּ֣סat <the> Pas

    bapasH6450 →

  • דַּמִּ֗יםDammim

    damimH6450 →

  • וְהַפְּלִשְׁתִּים֙and the Philistines

    vehapelishtimH6430 →287 times

  • נֶאֱסְפוּ־they were gathered

    neesfu-H622 →200 times

  • שָׁ֣םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • לַמִּלְחָמָ֔הfor <the> battle

    lamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • וַתְּהִ֛יand it was

    vatehiH1961 →3559 times

  • חֶלְקַ֥ת[the] portion of

    chelkatH2513 →

  • הַשָּׂדֶ֖הthe field

    hasadehH7704 →334 times

  • מְלֵאָ֣הfull

    meleahH4392 →64 times

  • שְׂעוֹרִ֑יםbarley<s>

    seorimH8184 →

  • וְהָעָ֥םand the people

    vehaamH5971 →1873 times

  • נָ֖סוּthey fled

    nasuH5127 →159 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֥יfrom before

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • פְלִשְׁתִּֽים׃[the] Philistines

    felishtimH6430 →287 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 17:1

    Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war at Socoh in Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:35

      Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

    • 2 Chronicles 28:18

      The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.

    • 1 Samuel 13:5

      Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…

    • Judges 3:3

      the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

    • Joshua 10:10–11

      And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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