{"id":8702,"date":"2022-09-24T02:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-2337\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T02:42:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:42:55","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-2337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-2337\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 23:37"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armorbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 37<\/strong>. <em> Zelek the Ammonite<\/em> ] Like Igal the Syrian, and Ittai the Philistine, a foreigner who rose to distinction in David&rsquo;s service.<\/p>\n<p><em> Naharai the Beerothite<\/em> ] Of Beeroth (see note on ch. <span class='bible'>2Sa 4:2<\/span>), and therefore perhaps a Gibeonite by race.<\/p>\n<p><em> armourbearer<\/em> ] The <em> Kthbh<\/em> has the plural <em> armourbearers<\/em>, but the singular is supported by the Sept. and Chron., and is probably the correct reading. Joab had ten armourbearers or attendant squires (ch. <span class='bible'>2Sa 18:15<\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Zelek the Ammonite<\/strong>,&#8230;. Who was so either by birth, and became a proselyte; so the Targum says, he was of the children of Ammon; or is so called, because he had sojourned some time in their land, or had done some exploits against them; unless he was of Chepharhaammonai, a city of the tribe of Benjamin, <span class='bible'>Jos 18:24<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naharai the Beerothite<\/strong>; native of Beeroth, a city in the same tribe, <span class='bible'>Jos 18:25<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah<\/strong>; Joab had ten of them, this perhaps was the chief of them, <span class='bible'>2Sa 18:15<\/span>; who was advanced to be a captain, and therefore has a name and place among the thirty, very likely for some military, exploits performed by him; he is in the list of David&#8217;s worthies, though not Joab his master, as before observed; the reason of Joab being left out is either because he was over them all, as before noted; according to Josephus t, Uriah the Hittite, after mentioned, was an armourbearer to Joab.<\/p>\n<p>t Antiqu. l. 7. c. 7. sect. 1.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(37) <strong>The Ammonite.<\/strong>A foreigner, like Igal of Zobah (a Syrian), and Ittai the Gittite, and Uriah the Hittite, who rose to distinction in Davids service, and all of whom were probably proselytes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Armourbearer.<\/strong>It appears from <span class='bible'>2Sa. 18:15<\/span> that Joab had ten armourbearers. This one was probably their chief.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>armourbearer. Joab&#8217;s armourbearer named, but not Joab himself. See note on 2Sa 23:24, above. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Zelek: 1Ch 11:39 <\/p>\n<p>Nahari: 1Ch 11:37 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 2Sa 24:2 &#8211; Joab<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armorbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 37. Zelek the Ammonite ] Like Igal the Syrian, and Ittai the Philistine, a foreigner who rose to distinction in David&rsquo;s service. Naharai the Beerothite ] Of Beeroth (see note on ch. 2Sa 4:2), and therefore perhaps a Gibeonite by race. armourbearer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-samuel-2337\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 23:37&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}