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2 Samuel 23:37

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Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armorbearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,

KJV

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,

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This verse in 2 Samuel 23

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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 Awakening2 voices

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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Zelek the Ammonite,....

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

9 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.

  • צֶ֖לֶקZelek

    tzelekH6768 →

  • הָעַמֹּנִ֑י סthe Ammonite

    haamoniH5984 →

  • נַחְרַי֙Naharai

    nachraiH5171 →

  • הַבְּאֵ֣רֹתִ֔יthe Beerothite

    habeerotiH886 →5 times

  • נֹשֵׂ֕א[the] bearer of

    noseei'H5375 →656 times

  • כְּלֵ֖י[the] armor<s> of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • יוֹאָ֥בJoab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • צְרֻיָֽה׃ סZeruiah

    tzeruyahH6870 →26 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

6 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 Samuel 4:2

    Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 18:25

      Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

    • Joshua 9:17

      So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

    • 2 Kings 5:2

      At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.

    • 2 Samuel 3:22

      Just then David’s soldiers and Joab returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder. But Abner was not with David in Hebron because David had sent him on his way in peace.

    • 2 Kings 6:23

      So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come…

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 11:37

    Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai son of Ezbai,

    it leads to

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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