2 Samuel 23:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:

Ver. 9. When they defied the Philistines,] viz., At Pasdammim. 1Ch 11:13

And the men of Israel were gone away.] Fled, and forsook their captains; a shame to forsake such a captain, of whom it might be said, as was once of Fabius Maximus,

Hic patria est, murique urbis stant pectore in uno. ” - Silius.

2 Samuel 23:9

9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: