2 Samuel 23:33
in 2 Samuel 23Jonathan son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
KJV
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
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This verse in 2 Samuel 23
Commentary
4 notes on this verseShammah the Hararite,.... From the mountainous country, as the Targum; the Arabic and Syriac versions say, from the mount of Olives: Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite: from the high mountain, as the Targum; in 1Ch 11:35, he is called the son of Sacar.
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
6 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁמָּה֙ | shamah | Shammah | H8048 → | |
| הַֽהֲרָרִ֔י | haharari | the Hararite | H2043 → | 5 times |
| אֲחִיאָ֥ם | ʾachiam | Ahiam | H279 → | |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שָׁרָ֖ר | sharar | Sharar | H8325 → | |
| הָארָרִֽי׃ ס | harari | the Hararite | H2043 → | 5 times |
שַׁמָּה֙Shammah
shamahH8048 →
הַֽהֲרָרִ֔יthe Hararite
haharariH2043 →5 times
אֲחִיאָ֥םAhiam
ʾachiamH279 →
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
שָׁרָ֖רSharar
shararH8325 →
הָארָרִֽי׃ סthe Hararite
harariH2043 →5 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 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
2 Samuel 23:11And after him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines had banded together near a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 11:13–14
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.
- 1 Chronicles 11:27
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
- 1 Chronicles 11:13–14
Through
1 Chronicles 11:27Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 23:25–26
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
- 2 Samuel 23:25–26
Through
1 Chronicles 11:35Ahiam son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal son of Ur,
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 23:33–34
Jonathan son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,
- 2 Samuel 23:33–34
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
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.