1 Chronicles 11:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three. ”

• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  David Made King in Hebron; Jerusalem Taken; David's Mighty Men (see notes on 2 Samuel 5:1-3 ; 2 Samuel 5:6-10 ; 2 Samuel 23:8-39 ). 1 Chronicles 11:42-47 . An addition by the Chronicler from...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  was . came to be (as in Genesis 1:2 ), the three: i.e. who performed the foregoing act. had. Some codices, with five early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "he had".

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them , and had a name among the three.

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it,...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  David's Coronation at Hebron and his Capture of Zion The writer, though mentioning David's crowning at Hebron, omits all description of his 7 years' reign there, and in this chapter unites with so...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (10-44) X list of the warriors who helped David to win and maintain his kingdom. This catalogue answers to that of 2 Samuel 23:8-39 , which, however, breaks off with Uriah the Hittite; whereas our...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  DAVID 1. HIS TRIBE AND DYNASTY KING and kingdom were so bound up in ancient life that an ideal for the one implied an ideal for the other: all distinction and glory possessed by either was shared...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now enter on the second section of this Book. In this section there are four movements: the story of David's crowning, the events connected with the Ark of God, the account of David's reign, and,...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  We know not which to admire most, the bravery of those men, or the piety of David, in the instance concerning the water of Bethlehem here recorded. With what boldness did they enter the host of the P...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them He vanquished them all, and slew a great number of them: it is, however, not said that he slew them all at one time, as it is said of Jashob...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  David's Mighty Men. B. C. 1048.       10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom D...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He slew them; he vanquished them all, and slew a great number of them; though it be not said that he slew them all at one time, as it is said of Jashobeam, above, 1 Chronicles 11:11 .

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] The writer here passes by the 7½ years of David’s reign over Judah, at which he had glanced in his introductory section (chap. 1 Chronicles 3:4 ), and hastens to the glorious period...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Chronicles 11:11 . Jashobeam, called Tachmoni, 2 Samuel 23:8 , a wise man and valiant. He had earned the laurel to sit as the chairman of David's generals. Three hundred men he killed, and five...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Chronicles 11:1 Upon the death of Saul, Abner, for a while espousing the cause of Ishbo-sheth, the only surviving son of Saul, "made him king over" a large proportion of the pe...

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  David's Mighty Men and their Deeds

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• 1 Chronicles 11:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 2:16 ; 1 Samuel 26:6 ; 2 Samuel 18:2 ; 2 Samuel 2:18 ; 2 Samuel 20:6 ; 2 Samuel 21:17 ; 2 Samuel 23:18 ; 2 Samuel 23:19-39 ; 2 Samuel 3:30

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