Verse 8
These be the names of the mighty men - This chapter should be collated with the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 11:11-47; and see Kennicott's First Dissertation on the printed Hebrew text, pages 64-471.
The Tachmonite that sat in the seat - Literally and properly, Jashobeam the Hachmonite. See 1 Chronicles 11:11 .
The same was Adino the Eznite - This is a corruption for he lift up his spear. See 1 Chronicles 11:11 .
Eight hundred , whom he slew at one time - Three hundred is the reading in Chronicles, and seems to be the true one. The word חלל chalal , which we translate slain, should probably be translated soldiers, as in the Septuagint, στρατιωτας ; he withstood three hundred Soldiers at one time. See the note on David's lamentation over Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel 1:21 ; (note), and Kennicott's First Dissertation, p. 101. Dr. Kennicott observes: "This one verse contains three great corruptions in the Hebrew text:
- The proper name of the hero Jashobeam is turned into two common words, rendered, that sat in the seat.
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