2 Samuel 23:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Asahel. — As he was killed by Abner while David reigned over Judah only, it is plain that this list is not restricted to any one definite time in David’s reign. Leaving out Asahel, however, the names that follow are exactly “thirty.” Of but few of them is anything further known.

2 Samuel 23:24

24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,