11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, 1
Mibhar son of Hagri,
24:25 The brother of Micah:
Isshiah.
Zechariah from the sons of Isshiah.
7:34 The sons of his brother 3 Shemer: 4
Rohgah, Hubbah, 5 and Aram.
2:32 The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother:
Jether and Jonathan. (Jether died without having sons.)
4:11 Kelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
11:26 The mighty warriors were:
Asahel the brother of Joab,
Elhanan son of Dodo, from Bethlehem, 6
2:42 The sons of Caleb, Jerahmeel’s brother:
His firstborn Mesha, the father of Ziph, and his second son Mareshah, 8 the father of Hebron.
11:20 Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three 9 elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear 10 and gained fame along with the three elite warriors. 11
12:29 From Benjamin, Saul’s tribe, 12 there were 3,000, most of whom, up to that time, had been loyal to Saul. 13
20:5 There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, 14 whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom. 15
27:7 The fourth, assigned the fourth month, was Asahel, brother of Joab; his son Zebadiah succeeded him. 16 His division consisted of 24,000 men.
28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 17 I have made the preparations for building it.
1 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 23:36 has the variant “Igal son of Nathan from Zobah.”
2 tn Heb “was the head of the house of their fathers.”
3 tc The Hebrew text has אֲחִי (’akhiy, “the brother of”), but this should probably be emended to אֲחִיו (’akhiyv, “his brother”). Cf. v. 35. Most English versions treat this Hebrew word as a proper name (“Ahi”) and list it before “Rohgah.”
4 tn Or “Shomer,” cf. v. 32.
5 tc “Hubbah” is the marginal reading (Qere); the consonantal text (Kethib) has “Jachbah.”
4 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
5 tn The parallel text in 2 Sam 21:21 has the variant spelling “Shimeah.”
6 tc Heb “and the sons of Mareshah,” but this does not fit contextually. Perhaps the text originally had וּבְנוֹ מִשְׁנֶה מָרֵשָׁה (uvÿno mishneh mareshah, “and his second son, Mareshah”), with מִשְׁנֶה (“second”) later accidentally falling out by homoioteleuton (cf. the note in BHS here).
7 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).
8 tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”
9 tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”
8 tn Heb “from the sons of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul.”
9 tn Heb “and until then, the majority of them were keeping the charge of the house of Saul.”
9 tc The Hebrew text reads, “Elchanan son of Jair killed Lachmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite.” But it is likely that the accusative marker in front of לַחְמִי (lakhmiy, “Lachmi”) is a corruption of בֵּית (bet), and that אֶת־לַחְמִי (’et-lakhmiy) should be emended to בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי (bet hallakhmiy, “the Bethlehemite”). See 2 Sam 21:19.
10 tc See tc note on the parallel passage in 2 Sam 21:19.
10 tn Heb “[was] after him.”
11 tn Heb “I, with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the