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1 Chronicles 11:26

in 1 Chronicles 11

Now these were the mighty men: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

KJV

Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth–lehem,

This verse in 1 Chronicles 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
etc. The list of names here given corresponds generally with that in 2 Sam. 23:24-39, 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 Chronicles. (4) many of the other names, both personal and local, vary in the two lists. It is quite possible that the two lists varied to some extent originally.

This site's exposition

Asahel the brother of Joab

on 1 Chronicles 11:26-31

The roll's third tier, the valiant men of the armies, opens with Asahel, Joab's brother killed years earlier in 2 Sam 2:23, named in the honor roll though already dead when Chronicles was written, and this unit closes with a different Benaiah, the Pirathonite. Chronicles' full list numbers forty-seven names against Samuel's thirty-one at 2 Sam 23:24-39; four names appear only here, five appear only there, and the rest vary enough in spelling that one original list could stand behind both without either being simply wrong.

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 Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Also the valiant men of the armies--This was the third degree of military rank, and Asahel was their chief; the names of few of those mentioned are historically known.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְגִבּוֹרֵ֖יand [the] mighty [men] of

    vegiboreiH1368158 times

  • הַחֲיָלִ֑ים<the> strength<s>

    hachayalimH2428246 times

  • עֲשָׂה־Asah-

    ʾasah-H621424 times

  • אֵל֙-el

    ʾelH621424 times

  • אֲחִ֣י[the] brother of

    ʾachiH251630 times

  • יוֹאָ֔בJoab

    yoavH3097144 times

  • אֶלְחָנָ֥ןElhanan

    ʾelchananH445

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • דּוֹד֖וֹDodo

    dodoH1734

  • מִבֵּ֥יתfrom Beth-

    mibeitH103582 times

  • לָֽחֶם׃ ס-lehem

    lachemH103582 times

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

The walk

8 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

    2 Samuel 23:24

    Now these were members of the Thirty: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 2:18

      The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,

    • 1 Chronicles 27:7

      The fourth, for the fourth month, was Joab’s brother Asahel, and his son Zebadiah was commander after him. There were 24,000 men in his division.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 21:19

    Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s…

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 20:5

      Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

    • 1 Samuel 17:4–11

      Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 27:7

    The fourth, for the fourth month, was Joab’s brother Asahel, and his son Zebadiah was commander after him. There were 24,000 men in his division.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 23:24

      Now these were members of the Thirty: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

  • Through

    2 Samuel 3:30

    (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 2:19–23

      and he chased Abner, not turning to the right or to the left in his pursuit.

    • Acts 28:4

      When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to…

    • Proverbs 28:17

      A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

About 1 Chronicles

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.