Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 12:5
Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
1-7. Now these are they that came toDavid to ZiklagThere are three lists given in this chapter,arranged, apparently, according to the order of time when the partiesjoined the standard of David.
while he yet kept himselfclose because of Saulthat is, when the king’s jealousy haddriven him into exile from the court and the country.
Ziklag(See on 1Sa27:6). It was during his retirement in that Philistine town thathe was joined in rapid succession by the heroes who afterwardscontributed so much to the glory of his reign.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite. A native of Haruph or Hariph, see Ne 7:24.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) Jerimoth.A Benjamite name (1Ch. 7:7-8).
Bealiah.Baal is Jah. (Comp. Note on 1Ch. 8:33.) Such names indicate that Baal was once a title of the God of Israel.
The Haruphite.Neh. 7:24 mentions the sons of Hariph just before the sons of Gibeon. The Hebrew margin here is Hariphite.