2 Samuel 23:18

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What does 2 Samuel 23:18 mean?

2 Samuel 23:18 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for 2 Samuel 23:18

• 2 Samuel 10:10

  And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 10:14

  And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 11:20-21

  And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three. Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

• 2 Samuel 18:2

  And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

• 2 Samuel 20:10

  But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 3:30

  So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

• 1 Samuel 26:6-8

  Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

• 1 Chronicles 2:16

  Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

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Context

• 2 Samuel 23:17

  And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

• 2 Samuel 23:18

  And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

• 2 Samuel 23:19

  Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

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