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2 Samuel 23:28

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Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

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ASV

Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

KJV

Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

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This verse in 2 Samuel 23

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Zalmon the Ahohite,.... The same with Ilai, 1Ch 11:29; a descendant of Ahoah, a grandson of Benjamin, 1Ch 8:4, Maharai the Netophathite, who was of Netophah, a city of the tribe of Judah, mentioned along with Bethlehem, Neh 7:26; a place of this name is spoken of in the Misnah (o), famous for artichokes and olives. (o) Misn. Peah, c. 7. sect. 1. Sheviith, c. 9. sect. 5.

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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 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.

  • צַלְמוֹן֙Zalmon

    tzalmonH6756 →

  • הָֽאֲחֹחִ֔יthe Ahohite

    haachochiH266 →

  • מַהְרַ֖יMaharai

    mahraiH4121 →

  • הַנְּטֹפָתִֽי׃ סthe Netophathite

    hanetofatiH5200 →

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

7 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 Kings 25:23

    When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah,…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 40:7–9

      When all the commanders and men of the armies in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in…

    • Jeremiah 40:11–12

      When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son…

    • Joshua 18:26

      Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 27:13

    The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite, a Zerahite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

    it leads to

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 11:30

    Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 27:13

      The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite, a Zerahite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

    • 2 Samuel 23:29

      Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,

    • 1 Chronicles 27:15

      The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, from the family of Othniel. There were 24,000 men in his division.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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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.

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