2 Samuel 23:27
in 2 Samuel 23Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
KJV
Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
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This verse in 2 Samuel 23
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAbiezer the Anethothite,.... He was of Anathoth, in the tribe of Benjamin, Jos 21:18, the birthplace of Jeremiah the prophet, Jer 1:1, Mebunnai the Hushathite; the same with Sibbecai, 1Ch 11:29; this man had two names, and was a descendant of Hushah, who came of Judah, 1Ch 4:4.
This site's exposition
Asahel the brother of Joab
on 2 Samuel 23:24-38
The thirty are given as names and towns, and the roll keeps its dead: Asahel has been in his grave since Abner killed him at 2:23, and he stands first. The company is wider than Israel, with Zelek the Ammonite and Uriah's fellow foreigners on equal footing, drawn from the men who gathered to David in the cave days. At verse 34 stands Eliam the son of Ahithophel, and since Bathsheba is called the daughter of Eliam at 11:3, some draw the line that makes Ahithophel her grandfather; it is an inference from two verses, and the page says so.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the first three--The mighty men or champions in David's military staff were divided into three classes--the highest, Jashobeam, Eleazar, and Shammah; the second class, Abishai, Benaiah, and Asahel; and the third class, the thirty, of which Asahel was the chief.
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The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 Chronicles 27:12The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 11:28
Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
- 1 Chronicles 11:28
Through
1 Chronicles 11:19saying, “Far be it from me, my God, to do this! How can I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” Because they had brought it at the risk of their…
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 23:17
saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of…
- Psalms 72:14
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
- Judges 9:17
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
- Mark 14:24
He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
- 1 Kings 21:3
But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”
- 2 Samuel 23:17
Through
1 Chronicles 11:28Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 27:12
The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
- 1 Chronicles 27:9
The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
- 1 Chronicles 27:12
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Samuel
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.