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2 Samuele 23:19

Fu il più illustre dei tre, e perciò fu fatto loro capo; nondimeno non giunse ad eguagliare i primi tre.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Courage;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Captain;   Giants;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Uriah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abishai;   Mighty Men;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Giant;   Ithrite, the;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Army;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Attain;   Text of the Old Testament;  

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Fu il pi illustre dei tre e perci fu fatto loro capo; ma non giunse a eguagliare i primi tre.
Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
fra i quali certo egli fu il più illustre, e fu lor capo; ma non pervenne a quegli altri tre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he attained: 2 Samuel 23:9, 2 Samuel 23:13, 2 Samuel 23:16, 1 Chronicles 11:25, Matthew 13:8, Matthew 13:23, 1 Corinthians 15:41

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 18:17 - Benaiah Ecclesiastes 4:12 - and a

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Was he not most honourable of three?.... He was; who, besides the exploit here mentioned, did many other things; he went down with David into Saul's camp, and took away his spear and cruse, which were at his bolster, 1 Samuel 26:6; he relieved David when in danger from Ishbibenob the giant, 2 Samuel 21:16; he beat the Edomites, and slew eighteen thousand of them in the valley of salt, 1 Chronicles 18:12:

therefore he was their captain; of the other two, or was head over them, took rank before them:

howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three; for fortitude, courage, and warlike exploits, namely, to the Tachmonite, Eleazar, and Shammah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

i. e., “Was he not the most honorable of the three of the second order, howbeit, he attained not to the three,” the triad, namely, which consisted of Jashobeam, Eleazar, and Shammah. That two triads are mentioned is a simple fact, although only five names are given.


 
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