1 Chronicles 11:26
Now, the heroes of the forces, were,—Asahel, brother of Joab, Elhanan, son of Dodo, of Bethlehem;
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In Context
27Shammoth, the Harorite, Helez the Paltite;
Cross References
2 Samuel 2:18Now there were there, three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel,—and, Asahel, was light of foot as a wild gazelle.
2 Samuel 21:19And there was yet again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,—when Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim of Bethlehem, smote Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
1 Chronicles 27:7The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel, brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son, after him,—and, in his course, were twenty-four thousand.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 11:11-47
David's Mighty Men. ( b. c. 1048.) 10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. 11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time. 12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.… Read the whole commentary →