1Ch 11:1
11:1 Then all Israel {a} gathered themselves to David unto
     Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.

     (a) This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul's son, when
         David had reigned over Judah seven years and six months
         in Hebron, @2Sa 5:5.

1Ch 11:11
11:11 And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David had;
      Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the {b} chief of the captains:
      he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain [by
      him] at one time.

      (b) Meaning, the most excellent and best esteemed for his
          valiantry: some read, the chief of the princes.

1Ch 11:14
11:14 And they set themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, {c}
      and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD
      saved [them] by a great deliverance.

      (c) This act refers to Shammah, @2Sa 23:11, who it
          seems was the chiefest of these.

1Ch 11:15
11:15 Now three of the {d} thirty captains went down to the rock
      to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the
      Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

      (d) That is, Eleazar and his two companions.

1Ch 11:19
11:19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this
      thing: shall I drink the {e} blood of these men that have
      put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of]
      their lives they brought it.  Therefore he would not drink
      it. These things did these three mightiest.

      (e) That is, this water, for which they risked their
          lives.

1Ch 11:25
11:25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained
      not to the {f} [first] three: and David set him over his
      guard.

      (f) Meaning, those three who brought the water to David.

1Ch 11:27
11:27 {g} Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

      (g) Called also Shammah, @2Sa 23:25.

1Ch 11:29
11:29 {h} Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

      (h) He is also called Mebunnai, @2Sa 23:27.



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