“Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.”
Cross references: : 2 Sam. 5:1 This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul’s son, when David had reigned over Judah seven years and six months in Hebron, 2 Sam. 5:5 .
“And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains : he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time. an Hachmonite: or, son of Hachmoni”
Meaning, the most excellent and best esteemed for his valiantness: some read, the chief of the princes.
“And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance. set: or, stood deliverance: or, salvation”
This act is referred to Shammah, 2 Sam. 23:11 , which seemeth was the chiefest of these.
“Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. three: or, three captains over the thirty”
That is, Eleazar and his two companions.
“And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest. that have: Heb. with their lives?”
That is, this water, for the which they ventured their blood.
“Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.”
2 Sam. 23:23 Meaning, those three which brought the water to David.
“Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, Shammoth: or, Shammah Harorite: or, Harodite Pelonite: or, Paltite”
Called also Shammah, 2 Sam. 23:25 .
“Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, Sibbecai: or, Mebunnai Ilai: or, Zalmon”
He is also called Mebunnai, 2 Sam. 23:27 .