⁴²Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him; ⁴³Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite; =42.= _and thirty with him_] This clause may be a marginal note taken into the text at the wrong place. It was apparently meant to stand after the name of Uriah the Hittite (verse 41) by some scribe who followed our present text and referred “the sons of Hashem” (verse 34) to Azmaveth and Eliahba (verse 33), thus reckoning just thirty names from Asahel to Uriah. The clause should be read _either_ “and up to him are thirty” _or_ “and all of them are thirty” (compare 2 Samuel xxiii. 39). Another possibility is that the proper place of these verses, 42‒47, is in chapter xii., after verse 7: they describe on that view the _Reubenite_ gathering to David, and the names in verses 43‒47 are then to be regarded as a portion of the list of the _thirty_ with Adina (verse 42). On the characteristics of these additional names and of those in xii. 1‒22, see G. B. Gray, _Hebrew Proper Names_, p. 230. ⁴⁴Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite; ⁴⁵Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite; =44.= _the Ashterathite_] i.e. inhabitant of Ashtaroth (vi. 71 [56, Hebrew]), a city of Manasseh east of Jordan. _the Aroerite_] i.e. inhabitant of Aroer. There were two cities of this name, both east of Jordan; compare Joshua xiii. 16, 25. ⁴⁶Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite; =46.= _the Mahavite_] Read perhaps, “the Mahanite,” i.e. inhabitant of Mahanaim, a town east of Jordan; compare 2 Samuel xvii. 27; or “the Meonite,” i.e. of Beth Meon, a Reubenite city, Joshua xiii. 17. ⁴⁷Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite. =47.= _the Mezobaite_] Read perhaps, “of Zobah”; compare verse 38, note. CHAPTER XII. =1‒22= (not in Samuel). DAVID’S ADHERENTS IN EXILE.