He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
He was with David at Pas-dammim. It was at the time when he was a fugitive in the wilderness; and, parched with thirst under the burning heat of noon-day, he wistfully thought of the cool fountain of his native village. This is a notice of the achievement to which Eleazar owed his fame, but the details are found only in 2 Samuel 23:9-11, where it is further said that he was aided by the valour of Shammah-a fact corroborated in the passage before us (1 Chronicles 11:14), where it is recorded of the heroes that "they set themselves in the midst of that parcel." Since the singular number is used in speaking of Shammah, 2 Samuel 23:12, the true view seems to be that when Eleazar had given up from exhaustion, Shammah succeeded, and by his fresh and extraordinary prowess preserved the field.
Barley - or lentiles (2 Samuel 23:11).