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2 Samuel 23:6-8
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 Samuel 23:6-8
Evangelical Heritage Version
6 Worthless, wicked men are all like thorns to be thrown away.
No one even picks them up with his hand.
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]
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- 2 Samuel 23:8 Greek variant Ishbaal
- 2 Samuel 23:8 Or the Thirty or the officers
- 2 Samuel 23:8 The parallel text in 1 Chronicles 11:11 reads three hundred.
- 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.
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