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2 Samuel 23:18

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among the three,.... Another triumvirate, of which he was the head:and he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and] slew [them]; Josephus says six hundred; this seems to confirm the reading of 2Sa 23:8, that the number eight hundred is right, for if it was only three hundred, Abishai would have been equal to one, even the first, of the former three; which yet is denied him in 2Sa 23:19:and had the name among three; of which he was one; and he had the chief name among them, or was the most famous of them.

Antiqu. l. 7. c. 12. sect.

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