Then answered David,.... Or addressed himself to the two following persons:and said to Ahimelech the Hittite; who was either an Hittite by birth, but was become a proselyte, or he was an Israelite that had dwelt among the Hittites, and so had this name given him; the former seems most probable; some say this was Uriah the Hittite:and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab; Zeruiah was the sister of David, 1Ch 2:15; and these were two sons of hers, who very probably joined David at the cave of Adullam, 1Sa 22:1;saying, who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?
that is, which of you two?and Abishai said, I will go down with thee; the other being timorous, or Abishai being most forward spoke first. Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. Reg. fol. 76.