The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 155

going up n to the west of the temple (eh. Josh. viii. 31; Pa. xli. 9; lxxiv. 5; Isa. ii. xxii. 16). The likeliest view of Millo is 4; Ezek. xxvi. 28.) tbo.t it was a very strong point of forti.6- Ver. l~.-Elea~e.r. Perhaps the same a.a co.tion in the surrounding defences of the Aze.reel rn the list e.t eh. xii. 6, in which hill of Zion (1 Kings ix. 24; xi. 27). In Jashobeam is also fonnd. Dodo. This name 2 Chron,- xxxii. 5 the otherwise unvo.rying is fo~nd in thr~e forms, the Chethiv being translation (11 t,.,cpm) of the Septuo.gint is Dod1 ; . the Ker!i Dodo ; . and Dodai being superseded by Tb a.110.>..71µ.µ.a,, a word itself of found m eh. xxvu. 4. He IS mentioned in eh. doubtful signification. For while some xxvii. 4 ad "over the course of the second would render it by the word "foundation," month . . . in his course likewise twentv Schleusner translates it "height." Grove and four thousand." The Ahohite. In the (in Smith's • Bible Dictionary,' ii. 367) pe.re.llel passage (2 Sam. xxiii. 9), for •n\m:.i puts it in " the neighbourhood of the here, we find •r:iin~-p. Ahohite i~ t.b.~ Tyi-opman valley at the foot of Zion." Some clue may lie in the word "inward," patronymic of the Ahoah, who (eh. viii. o.pplied to the building by David. Does it 4) was given among the sons of Bela, imply a covering by edifices of the space, or the firstborn of Benjamin. , The three some portion of it, that lay between Zion mighties. Who is the third? We have o.nd the rest of the city? (See also Keil on here but two-Jashobeam and Eleazar. The Kings, vol. ii. 163.) pa.re.lie! passage supplies the omission by Vere. 10-25.-This list of chiefs of the no.me of Shammah the He.re.rite '2 Sam. David's "mighty men" finds a more appro- xxiii. 11, 33; comp. our ver. 27). 'And a priate position where it is placed here, than careful comparison of the passages sun-n-ests where it is found, after the close of the very how the omission co.me about, e.nd tb.~t it dying speech of David, in 2 Sam. xxiii. was but part of a larger omission. Between 8-2;J. It plainly belongs to the time of the sentences, "and there the Philistines the esto.blishment of David's sway over the were gathered together to battle," and whole people. The different position of "where was a pa.reel of ground full of the list here is itself an indication of some barley" (in our next verse, 13) there is e.n force, that the writers of the work of hiatU11 of two verses (viz. those found in 2 Samuel and of Chronicles 11,va.iled them- Sam. xxiii. as latter half of ver. 9, ver. 10, selves independently of the common source, and former half of ver. 11), o.nd this hiatus o.nd that the latter did not take through was occasioned probably by the recurrence the former. of the expression," and the Philistine8 were Ver. 11.-This is the number. The go.thered together," in the remaining he.If Hebrew ho.a," These are the number." The of ver. 11 (see Kennicott's Bible, o.nd sentence should probably be, "These are • Speaker's Commentary,' i-n loc.). the names" (2 Sum. xxiil. 8). J"o.shobeam. Ver.13.-Pe.s-de.mmim. This word,c•z;,:1 O!loT, In the pe.ro.llel passage, this no.me is sup- appears in 1 Sam. xvii. 1 a.a □'!;>'1 op~, o.nd plied by the words " The Tachmonite, is supposed to meo.n, in either form,.•• the n:uii~ :Hii•, Authorized Version, "that se.t boundary of blood;" it was the scene of in -the eeo.t" (see the previous verse), pro- frequent conlliots with the Philistines, o.nd bo.bly in error for our □V?,~: (see Kenni- was the spot where they were encamped at cott's • Dissert.,' 82). His immediate pe.ter- the time of Golio.th's cho.llenge to Isro.el. nnl o.ncestor seems to have been Za.bdiel It wo.s near Shocoh, or Socoh, in Judah, (eh. xxvii. 2). The only other notices of some fourteen miles south-west of J eruso.- him a.re in eh. xii. 6; xxvii. 2, in which lem. Full of barley. The Authorized Ver- lo.tter po.sao.ge he is mentioned a.a "over the sion reading in tho po.ro.llel passo.go (2 So.m. fust course for the first month, ... e.nd in his xxiii. 11) is "full of lentiles," the Hebrew course were twenty e.ud four, thousand." The for" bo.rley" is □''.liV~, for "lcntilea" c·tt;1y_. ohief of the captains. The Authorized Possibly the words should be the so.mo, one Version follows the Keri (which is distin- being hero spelt, by o.ccident, wrongly for guished from the Chethiv by a yod in plaoe the other (so Kennicott). The first Bible of a vau), and tro.nsle.tes captai1111. It seems mention of "barley" occurs in Exod. ix. better (vers. 15, 25; eh. xii. 4, 18; xxvii. 6) 31, 32, from which verses wo leo.rn that it, to a.bide by the Chethiv, and tmnale.te "the together with "lle.x," was o.n earlier crop chief of the tliirty." Re lifted up his spear. than "rye" and " wheat." It wus not only Notice the probable error in Samuel, used for food for me.n (Numb. v. 15; Judg. ocouaioned by some similarity in the Hebrew vii. 13; Ezek. iv. 12), but o.lso for horses letters, "The same wo.s Adino the Eznite." (1 Kings iv. 28). That it was nevertheless The number of J ashobeo.m'a victims is stated of the less-vo.lued gro.in, wo havo aiguifico.nt e.t "eight hundred" in the po.re.lie! passage indications, in its being prescribed for the (2 Sam. xxiii. 8). (For e.no.logous idioms, "jealousy offering" (Numb. v. 15, comp. see Exod. vii. 20; :u. 25; Dl'ut. xxvii. 5; with Lev. ii. 1), Bnd in its being part of th@ I, CHRONICLES, L  ]46 THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. (oa. XI. 1-47.