John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 23:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, etc.] Or the son of Ahohi, perhaps the same with Ahoah, a descendant of Benjamin, (<130804>1 Chronicles 8:4); this Eleazar was the next to the Tachmonite, the second worthy of the first class: [one] of the three mighty men with David; the second of the three valiant men that were with David in his wars, and fought with him, and for him: when they defied the Philistines; clapped their hands at them, gloried over them, daring them to come and light them; so did David and his mighty men, as Goliath had defied them before: [that] were there gathered together to battle; at Pasdammim, as appears from (<131113>1 Chronicles 11:13); and the men of Israel were gone away; fled when they saw the Philistines gather together to fight them, notwithstanding they had defied them; and so David, and his three mighty men, were left alone to combat with the Philistines.

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