1 Chronicles 11:39 -

Zelek the Ammonite ,… the Berothite. Among David's great men were evidently numbered some foreigners, whose admiration and fidelity he must have won. Hence the mention ( 1 Chronicles 11:38 ) of Zobah, and here of the Ammonite ( 2 Samuel 8:12 ; 2 Samuel 12:26-31 ), the Beerothite (Beeroth, originally a Hivite city, Joshua 9:17 , fell to the lot of Benjamin, Joshua 18:25 ; to it belonging Rimmon and his two sons, Reehab and Baanah, possibly native Canaanites, the murderers of Ishbosheth, as above), and ( 1 Chronicles 11:41 ) the Hittite. The armour-bearer . To be made armour-bearer was a sign of honour and attachment ( 1 Samuel 16:21 ; 2 Samuel 18:15 ).