2 Samuel 23:24
These are the names of the great warriors: Asahel, the brother of Joab; Elhanan, the son of Dodo, from Bethlehem;
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
In Context
25Shammah and Elika, from the Harod clan;
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:13Joab, whose mother was Zeruiah, and some of David’s officials went from Hebron to Gibeon, and met at the pool there. They all sat down, the one group on one side of the pool and the other group on the other side.
2 Samuel 21:19Later there was another battle with the army of Philistia at Gob. During that battle, Elhanan, the son of Jaare-Oregim from Bethlehem, killed the brother of Goliath from Gath city; Goliath’s spear shaft/handle was ◄very thick, like the bar on a weaver’s loom/over two inches thick►.
1 Chronicles 27:7Asahel, Joab’s younger brother, was the commander of the group that served during the following/fourth month. Asahel’s son Zebadiah became the commander after Asahel was killed.
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 →