2 Samuel 23:35
in 2 Samuel 23Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
KJV
Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
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This verse in 2 Samuel 23
Commentary
4 notes on this verseHezrai the Carmelite,.... Of Mount Carmel; or from Carmela, as the Targum, see 1Sa 25:2; he is called Hezro, 1Ch 11:37, Paarai the Arbite; or from Arab, as the Targum, a city in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:52; according to Hillerus (r), the same with "Naarai the son of Ezbai", in 1Ch 11:37. (r) Onomastic. Sacr. p. 499.
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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חֶצְרַי֙ | chetzro | Hezrai | H2695 → | |
| הַֽכַּרְמְלִ֔י | hakarmeli | the Carmelite | H3761 → | 7 times |
| פַּעֲרַ֖י | paarai | Paarai | H6474 → | |
| הָאַרְבִּֽי׃ ס | haarbi | the Arbite | H701 → |
חֶצְרַי֙Hezrai
chetzroH2695 →
הַֽכַּרְמְלִ֔יthe Carmelite
hakarmeliH3761 →7 times
פַּעֲרַ֖יPaarai
paaraiH6474 →
הָאַרְבִּֽי׃ סthe Arbite
haarbiH701 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 23:25
and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this,…
- Joshua 15:24
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
- 1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 26:1–2
Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
- 1 Samuel 25:7
Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 23:25
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.