Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

2 Samuel 23:29

in 2 Samuel 23

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

KJV

Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

⋯

This verse in 2 Samuel 23

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite,.... Called Heled, 1Ch 11:30, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin: sometimes called Gibeah of Benjamin, Jdg 20:10, and Gibeah of Saul, 1Sa 11:4, being a city in the tribe of Benjamin, and the birth place of Saul king of Israel; and this man is distinguished hereby from Ittai the Gittite, 2Sa 15:19.

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.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

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.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

The words behind it

10 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.

  • חֵ֥לֶבHeleb

    chelevH2460 →

  • בֶּֽן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • בַּעֲנָ֖הBaanah

    baanahH1196 →9 times

  • הַנְּטֹפָתִ֑י סthe Netophathite

    hanetofatiH5200 →

  • אִתַּי֙Ittai

    ʾitaiH863 →9 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • רִיבַ֔יRibai

    rivaiH7380 →

  • מִגִּבְעַ֖תfrom Gibeah of

    migivatH1390 →

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • בִנְיָמִֽן׃ סBenjamin

    vinyaminH1144 →166 times

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

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

    Joshua 18:28

    Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 21:14

      And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded,…

    • Joshua 15:8

      From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom…

    • Numbers 33:54

      And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one…

    • Isaiah 10:29

      They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.

    • 1 Samuel 10:26

      Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Judges 3:9

      But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

    • 1 Chronicles 4:13

      The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

    • 1 Chronicles 11:30

      Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite,

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.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 23 →

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.

Read on in 2 Samuel 23 →