John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 23:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And three of the thirty chiefs went down, etc.] Or three that were chief of the thirty, superior to them; which some understand of the three before mentioned, so Josephus f388; and that having related some particular exploits of theirs, here observes one, in which they were all concerned; and others think the three next are meant, of whom Abishai was the chief, Benaiah the next, and the third Asahel; but the first sense is best: and came to David in the harvest time, unto the cave of Adullam; not when he was there, upon his flight from Saul, (<092201>1 Samuel 22:1); but after he was king, when engaged in war with the Philistines; perhaps wheat harvest is here meant: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim; the army of the Philistines, as the Targum; of the valley of Rephaim, (see Gill on “<061508>Joshua 15:8”).

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