_to make him king_] as though all the mighty men participated in the coronation at Hebron, whereas in reality many must have won their place and fame only in the later campaigns of David. ¹¹And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty¹; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and² slew them at one time. ¹ Another reading is, _captains_. ² Hebrew _slain_. =11.= _this is the number_] More suitably in Samuel, “These be the names.” _Jashobeam_] Called “Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel” in xxvii. 2. The name “Jashobeam” is however uncertain. In 2 Samuel (xxiii. 8, Revised Version) it appears as “Josheb-basshebeth,” which is certainly wrong. LXX. (B) varies in reproducing the name, but it seems to have read “Ish-bosheth” in Samuel, and “Ish-baal” (Esh-baal) in both places of Chronicles. These readings are probably right. For the relation of the forms “Ish-bosheth,” “Esh-baal” see viii. 33, note. _son of a Hachmonite_] Compare xxvii. 32. In Samuel (wrongly) “a Tahchemonite.” _chief of the thirty_] So the Hebrew margin (_Kethīb_), but the Hebrew text (_Ḳerī_) reads _chief of the captains_, which the Authorized Version follows. Neither Authorized Version nor Revised Version gives satisfactory sense. In 2 Samuel xxiii. 8 the LXX. gives, _chief of the third part_ [_of the army_], compare 2 Samuel xviii. 2; and this is perhaps right; the Hebrew text of Samuel (if not faulty) probably bears the same sense. Ish-baal (Jashobeam) then is one of three “mightiest of the mighty” men, the other two being Eleazar (verse 12) and Shammah (= 2 Samuel xxiii. 11; omitted in Chronicles――see note on verses 12, 13). _he lifted up his spear_] Literally “he aroused his spear,” a poetic expression. _against three hundred_] Samuel “against eight hundred”; so Peshitṭa (good MSS.) of Chronicles Some light is thrown on this exploit by 1 Samuel xviii. 25‒27; the two hundred Philistines slain by David and his men were carefully counted and reckoned to the credit of David personally. =12, 13.= These verses answer in part to verses 9 and 11 of Samuel, but since verse 10 and parts of verses 9, 11 of Samuel have no equivalent in Chronicles, two incidents are confounded, and the name of a hero (Shammah) is omitted, his exploit being ascribed to Eleazar. ¹²And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men. =12.= _Eleazar the son of Dodo_] Probably to be identified with “Dodai the Ahohite,” the commander of the second “course”; xxvii. 4. _the three mighty men_] i.e. the three who were with David on the occasion mentioned in 2 Samuel xxiii. 9. ¹³He was with David at Pas-dammim¹, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. ¹ In 1 Samuel xvii. 1, _Ephes-dammim_.