2 Samuel 23:24

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty, [also] Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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In The King James Version

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

In Context

23He was more honorable than the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.

25Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:13And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

2 Samuel 21:19And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

1 Chronicles 27:7The fourth [captain] for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him. And in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 23:9-39

David's Mighty Men. ( b. c. 1054.) 8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his… Read the whole commentary →

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