1 Chronicles 2:42

More of Caleb’s Descendants

2:42 The sons of Caleb, Jerahmeel’s brother:

His firstborn Mesha, the father of Ziph, and his second son Mareshah, ¹  the father of Hebron.

1 Chronicles 11:20

11:20 Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three ²  elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear ³  and gained fame along with the three elite warriors. ⁴ 

1 Chronicles 12:29

12:29 From Benjamin, Saul’s tribe, ⁵  there were 3,000, most of whom, up to that time, had been loyal to Saul. ⁶ 

1 Chronicles 20:5

20:5 There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, ⁷  whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom. ⁸ 

1 Chronicles 27:7

27:7 The fourth, assigned the fourth month, was Asahel, brother of Joab; his son Zebadiah succeeded him. ⁹  His division consisted of 24,000 men.

[2:42]  ¹ 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).

[11:20]  ² 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).

[11:20]  ³ tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”

[11:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”

[12:29]  ³ tn Heb “from the sons of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul.”

[12:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “and until then, the majority of them were keeping the charge of the house of Saul.”

[20:5]  ⁴ 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.

[20:5]  ⁵ tc See tc note on the parallel passage in 2 Sam 21:19.

[27:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “[was] after him.”