2 Samuel 23:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the mighty men. Hebrew. gibbor. App-14. This rehearsal comes at the end of David's reign, immediately before the setting up of the kingdom under

Solomon. Even so will it be, at the time of the end, with the true David.

The Tachmonite that sat in the seat. Authorized Version margin and Revised Version text. "Josheb-bassebet the Tachmonite". Really. Ish-bosheth, put for Ish-baal. " man of Baal, son of. Hachmonite "(compare 1 Chronicles 11:11), altered later to Adino. Compare St. Peter's exploit (Acts 2), and Stephen's (2 Samuel 6:7).

2 Samuel 23:8

8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmoniteb that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.