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2 Samuel 23:7-9
Evangelical Heritage Version

7 Anyone who touches them uses an iron tool or the shaft of a spear.
They are completely burned up in the fire, right where they are.

David’s Elite Warriors

8 These are the names of the elite warriors of David:

Jashobeam[a] son of Hakmon was leader among the Three.[b] He lifted up his spear and killed eight hundred[c] at once.[d]

9 After him came Eleazar son of Dodo, the Ahohite. As one of the three elite warriors, he was with David when they defied the Philistines gathered there[e] for battle. The men of Israel retreated,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:8 Greek variant Ishbaal
  2. 2 Samuel 23:8 Or the Thirty or the officers
  3. 2 Samuel 23:8 The parallel text in 1 Chronicles 11:11 reads three hundred.
  4. 2 Samuel 23:8 The translation of this verse follows the example of Luther, who harmonized the text of 2 Samuel 23 with the parallel in 1 Chronicles 11. The Hebrew of 2 Samuel 23 seems to read: the one sitting in the seat (Yosheb-basshebeth), the Tahchemonite, the head of the Three. It was Adino the Eznite against eight hundred pierced through at one time.
  5. 2 Samuel 23:9 The parallel in 1 Chronicles 11:13 identifies the location as Pas Dammim.
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