nnu,nnl, but is expl&ined by the history. the fifth brigade. "Izro.hlte" ia by some re- In honour of the exploit of brin!(ing the garded a8 l\n error for "the Zo.rhlte," that wster from the well of Bethlehem, this ia, a memher of the dnn descended from IK'OOnd order of three was institnted, lower Zerah the son of Judl\h. But If eo, how th&n the three ohiefs, bnt higher than the did he get to Ha.rod? Elib. Omitted in rest. The third of these ie not mentioned, Chronicles, probablv through the repetition and the diMppea?Rnce of the name ie not of the word" Harodite." the result of aooident, but of purpose. Had Ver. 26.-Hele■. He la twice oalled 11, it been a l!Oribe's error, there would have Pewnite in Chronicles, and wee general of been rome f:nl.oe of it in the vereionM. But the seventh brigade (1 Chrou. xxvii. 10), if the name WBB ol'Rl!ed, it must have been where he ie BA.id to have belonged to the blotted out for treason, and we thus have tribe of Ephraim. Whether Paltite or Pe1.on- two ce.ndidates for the VR<'&nt niche: one i.te is right, no one knows: but Beth-Po.let ie AmaSIL, and the other Ahithophel. The wns e. town in the tribe of Jndo.h, and not name of Jcmb we cannot for one moment in Ephraim. Ira. Ira had the command admit. He never wo.s a traitor to David, of the sixth brigade (1 Chron. xxvii. 9), nor would the latter, though king, have Tekoah (eee note on eh. xiv. 2). This Ira ventured to degrade one so powerful, and ie 11, distinct person from his n11omes11oke, who rontinued to be commander-in-chief David's confidential minister (eh. :xx. 26). 11ntil David's death. Now, if Ame.sa is the Ver. 27.-Abiezer. He be.d the command •me ILi! the Amasai in 1 Chron. xii. 18, who of the ninth brigade (1 Chron. xxvii 12). W81! chief of the captains who came from Anathoth, now Mata, was e. pri~tly city in Judah and Benjamin to David when he WM Benjttmin (Joeh. xxi. 18), the home of Abia- in the hold, it is difficnlt to account for the thar (1 Kings ii. 26), and the birthplace of absence of his name from the list of the Jeremiah (Jer. i. 1). Anethothit,s and .Anto- thirty. Plainly, however, Da"id did not thite, in the parallel places in Chronicles, :reg-ard his treason with strong displeasure, are merely different waye of pronounoing but was prepared, after Absalom's death, to the sa.me Hebrew consonants. lltebnnnai. make him commander-in-chief. But we Written Si"bbechai in eh. xxi. 18, and, as thti must remember that a place in this second name is so writteo in both the parallel plaoes triad wu gained by one exploit. The three in Chronicles, Mebunnai is probably a mis- were those who broke through the Phi- take. In I Chron. xxvii. 11 be is said to listine host, and fetched the we.ter from have been commander of the eighth brigade, Bethlehem. Such a deed would e.ocount and to have been a Zarhite of the town of for the close attachment between David o.nd Husha.h, in the tribe of Judah (see 1 Chron. Ahitbophel. He was the king's companion, iv. 4). and his familiar friend. It would account Ver. 28.-Zalmon. He is called Ilai in alS< for his suicide. His love to David had, l Chron. xi. 29. Ahohite (see note on ver. for some unknown reason, turned to bitter 9). lltaharai the Netophathite. Netophah, hatred. He sought, not only David's life, in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem (Ezra but his dishonour. His feelings must have ii. 22), was chiefly inhabited, after the exile, been liighly excited before he could have by the singers (Neh. xii. 28). Robinson worked hi.meelf up to such a pitch ; and the identifies it with Beit-Netif, to the south reaction and disappointment would be of Jerusalem; but probably erroneously, as equally extreme. He never could have Beit-Netif is too far from Bethlehem. Ma- faced David age.in, remembering the warmth harai was commander of the tenth brige.de, of former love, and the shamelessness with and was a Zarhite, and therefore belonged which he had sought, not only bis life, bnt to the tribe of Judah. to bring upon him public shame and igno- Ver. 29.-Heleb. He is called Hekd and miny. And his name would have been Hel,dai in the parallel places in Chronicles, totally eruaed, and gone down into silence. where we are told that he was a descendant Of Ahithophel's pereonal accomplishments of Othniel, and commander of the twelfth u a brave warrior, we cimoot doubt (see eh. brigade. Ittai. He fa called Ithai, by a :niL 1), and his son Elie.In was one of the very slight change, in Chronicles. Gibeah mighties. (On a son aod father both be- is the Geba so closely connected with the longing to the order, see note on ver. 33.) history of Saul (see 1 Sam. xiii. 3, 15, eto.), El.hane.n (see note on eh. xri. 19). (For Ittai the Philistine, a distinct person, Ver. 25.--8bamm&h the B:arodite. The see eh, xv. 19.) town Harod was in the plains of Jezreel, near Ver. 30.-Benaiah. He was an Ephraim- Mount Gilboa. lo 1 Cln-on. xi. 27 he is ite, and had the command of the eleventh calltd " Shammotb the Harorite," the latter brigade. Pirathon was a town in Ephre.im word Leing an easy corruption of Harodite; (Judg. xii. 15). Hiddo.l. Called Hwrai in and in 1 Chron. xxvii.8 he appears as" Sham- 1 Chron. xi. 32, by the common confusion buih the lzrahite,'' and hu the command of of d and r, The broolu of Ga.Hb. "Nahale• OH, XXIII, 1-39,] THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL. 573
Gaaah," the re.vines of Gaaeh, we.e probably Heiro, as in I Chron. xi. 37. Hie native the no.me of some village, of which nothing pie.ea we.a Carmel, for which see note on ie now lmown. l Sam. xv. 12. P&e.rai the Arbite. A nati va Ver. 81.-Abi-e.lbon, He ie oe.lled AbieZ of Arab, in Judah. In Chronicles he ie in 1 Chron. xi. 82. He belonged to the called " Ne.e.re.i the son of Ezbe.i." town of Deth-Are.bnh (Josh. xv. 61; xviii. Ver. 36.-lgal the aon of Na.than of Zobah. 22), oalled also Arabah (Josh. xviii. 18), in In Chronicles, "Joel the brother of Ne.than," the wilderness of Judah. Azmaveth the Igal and Joel in Hebrew being almost the Barhumite. He was of Balmrim, for which same. If the text here ie correct, be was ser. note on eh. iii. I G. by birth a Syrian of Zobe.h, for which see Ver. 82.-Elie.hba. He was of She.nlnbbin, note on eh. x. 6. :Bani the Gadite. In in the tribeofDe.n (Josh. xix. 42). St. Jerome Chronicles, '' Mibhar the son of Haoo"'eri," ealls the plaoe Selebi, the modern Sebbit. "Mibhar" to.king the place of •• fro':; Zo- Of the sons of J'e.ahen, J'one.the.n, She.mme.h bah;" "the son," be.a, that of "Be.ni; " and the Xe.rarite. In I Chron. xi. 34, "The sone Hagge.di, "the Gadite," becoming '' He."'- of He.sham the Gizonite, Jonathan the son ~~ 0