1 Chronicles 11:20

11:20 Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three ¹  elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear ²  and gained fame along with the three elite warriors. ³ 

1 Chronicles 19:10

19:10 When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 21:2

21:2 David told Joab and the leaders of the army, ⁵  “Go, count the number of warriors ⁶  from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have.” ⁷ 

1 Chronicles 26:28

26:28 They were also in charge of everything dedicated by Samuel the prophet, ⁸  Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah; Shelomith and his relatives were in charge of everything that had been dedicated.

1 Chronicles 27:24

27:24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel ⁹  because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll ¹⁰  called The Annals of King David.

¹ tc The Syriac reads “thirty” here and at the beginning of v. 21; this reading is followed by some English translations (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

² tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”

³ tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”

⁴ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:10 has “the Ammonites” in place of “the Arameans” here.

⁷ tn Or “people.”

⁸ tn Heb “Go, count Israel.” See the note on “had” in v. 1.

⁹ tn Heb “their number.”

¹⁰ tn Or “seer.”

¹³ tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”

¹⁴ tc The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but מִסְפַּר (mispar) is probably dittographic – note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to בְּסֵפֶר (bÿsefar, “in the scroll”).