These are the names of David's mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time. These are the names of David’s mighty menThis phrase introduces a list of elite warriors who served under King David. The term "mighty men" in Hebrew is "gibborim," which denotes strength, valor, and heroism. These men were not only skilled in battle but also loyal to David, reflecting the king's ability to inspire and lead. Historically, these warriors were crucial in establishing and maintaining David's kingdom, showcasing the importance of strong leadership and faithful service. Josheb-basshebeth the Tahkemonite
Josheb-basshebeth is identified as the chief of the Three, a title indicating his preeminence among David's warriors. The name "Josheb-basshebeth" is somewhat enigmatic, with some translations and manuscripts offering variations. "Tahkemonite" suggests his origin or clan, though its exact location is uncertain. This highlights the diverse backgrounds of David's men, unified under a common cause. was chief of the Three
The "Three" refers to a select group of David's mightiest warriors, distinguished from the larger group known as the "Thirty." Being chief of the Three indicates a position of highest honor and responsibility. This structure reflects the military organization of ancient Israel, where leadership and hierarchy were essential for effective governance and warfare. he wielded his spear against eight hundred men
This phrase emphasizes the extraordinary feat of Josheb-basshebeth, showcasing his prowess and courage. The spear, a common weapon in ancient warfare, symbolizes both offensive and defensive capabilities. The number "eight hundred" may be symbolic, representing a great multitude, and underscores the miraculous nature of his victory, suggesting divine empowerment and protection. whom he killed at one time
The phrase "at one time" highlights the singularity and miraculous nature of the event. Such feats were often seen as acts of divine intervention, where God granted victory to His chosen leaders and their followers. This serves as a testament to the faith and reliance on God that characterized David's reign and his warriors' exploits. Persons / Places / Events 1. DavidThe King of Israel, known for his leadership, military prowess, and heart for God. He gathered a group of mighty warriors who were instrumental in his military successes. 2. Josheb-basshebethAlso known as Adino the Eznite in some translations, he was the chief of David's mighty men. His remarkable feat of killing eight hundred men with his spear highlights his exceptional bravery and skill. 3. The TahkemoniteThis term refers to Josheb-basshebeth's origin or possibly a title. It indicates his background or a specific group he was associated with. 4. David’s Mighty MenA group of elite warriors who served King David. They were known for their extraordinary feats in battle and loyalty to David. 5. The BattleThe specific event where Josheb-basshebeth killed eight hundred men is not detailed, but it signifies a significant military victory and personal valor. Teaching Points Courage and FaithfulnessJosheb-basshebeth's actions demonstrate immense courage and faithfulness. Believers are encouraged to stand firm in their faith and face challenges with bravery. Leadership and InfluenceDavid's ability to inspire and lead such mighty men reflects the importance of godly leadership. Christians are called to lead by example and inspire others to achieve great things for God's kingdom. God's EmpowermentThe extraordinary feats of David's mighty men remind us that God empowers His people to accomplish what seems impossible. Trust in God's strength rather than our own. Loyalty and BrotherhoodThe unity and loyalty among David's mighty men serve as a model for Christian fellowship. Believers should support and stand by one another in spiritual battles. Legacy of FaithThe accounts of David's mighty men are preserved as a testament to their faith and valor. Christians are encouraged to live lives that leave a lasting legacy of faith and courage. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the courage of Josheb-basshebeth inspire you to face your own challenges with faith and bravery? 2. In what ways can you demonstrate godly leadership in your community or workplace, following David's example? 3. Reflect on a time when you experienced God's empowerment in a difficult situation. How did it strengthen your faith? 4. How can you foster loyalty and unity within your church or small group, similar to the bond among David's mighty men? 5. What steps can you take to ensure that your life leaves a legacy of faith and courage for future generations? Connections to Other Scriptures 1 Chronicles 11:11This verse parallels 2 Samuel 23:8, providing another account of Josheb-basshebeth's feat, emphasizing the consistency of his valor in the biblical account. 1 Samuel 22:1-2Describes the gathering of David's men at the cave of Adullam, where many of his mighty men first joined him, highlighting their loyalty and the beginning of their journey with David. Hebrews 11:32-34While not directly mentioning David's mighty men, this passage speaks of heroes of faith who conquered kingdoms and performed acts of valor, drawing a parallel to the faith and courage of David's warriors. People Abialbon, Abiel, Abiezer, Abishai, Adino, Agee, Ahasbai, Ahiam, Ahithophel, Anathoth, Ariel, Asahel, Azmaveth, Baanah, Bani, Benaiah, Benjamin, Benjaminites, David, Dodai, Dodo, Eleazar, Elhanan, Eliahba, Eliam, Elika, Eliphelet, Gareb, Heldai, Heleb, Helez, Hezrai, Hezro, Hiddai, Igal, Ikkesh, Ira, Ithai, Ittai, Jacob, Jashen, Jehoiada, Jesse, Joab, Jonathan, Maharai, Mebunnai, Naharai, Nahari, Nathan, Paarai, Ribai, Shammah, Sharar, Sibbecai, Uriah, Zalmon, Zelek, ZeruiahPlaces Adullam, Anathoth, Bahurim, Beeroth, Bethlehem, Carmel, Gaash, Gath, Gibeah, Gilo, Harod, Jerusalem, Kabzeel, Lehi, Maacah, Moab, Netophah, Pirathon, Tekoa, Valley of Rephaim, ZobahTopics Adino, Axe, Basshebeth, Captains, Chief, David, David's, Death, Eight, Encounter, Eznite, Fought, Hachmonite, Hardened, Hundred, Ishbaal, Joseb-bassebeth, Josheb, Josheb-basshebeth, Josheb-basshe'beth, Killed, Lift, Lifted, Mighty, Names, Ones, Raised, Sat, Seat, Sitting, Slain, Slew, Spear, Tachkemonite, Tachmonite, Tahchemonite, Tah-che'monite, Tahkemonite, War, Wielded, WoundedDictionary of Bible Themes 2 Samuel 23:8-12 5208 armies 2 Samuel 23:8-21 5776 achievement 2 Samuel 23:8-23 1652 numbers, 3-5 2 Samuel 23:8-39 5544 soldiers Library The Dying King's Last vision and Psalm
'Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue. 3. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureA Libation to Jehovah
'And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16. And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. 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 …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The Royal Jubilee
[Footnote: Preached on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.] '... He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain.'--2 SAMUEL xxiii. 3, 4. One of the Psalms ascribed to David sounds like the resolves of a new monarch on his accession. In it the Psalmist draws the ideal of a king, and says such …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture David's Dying Song
We shall notice first, that the Psalmist had sorrow in his house--" Although my house be not so with God." Secondly, he had confidence in the covenant--" yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant." And thirdly, he had satisfaction in his heart, for he says--" this is all my salvation, and all my desire. I. The Psalmist says he had sorrow in his house--"Although my house be not so with God." What man is there of all our race, who, if he had to write his history, would not need to use a great …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855 Covenanting Sanctioned by the Divine Example.
God's procedure when imitable forms a peculiar argument for duty. That is made known for many reasons; among which must stand this,--that it may be observed and followed as an example. That, being perfect, is a safe and necessary pattern to follow. The law of God proclaims what he wills men as well as angels to do. The purposes of God show what he has resolved to have accomplished. The constitutions of his moral subjects intimate that he has provided that his will shall be voluntarily accomplished …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting The Christian's Book
Scripture references 2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:20,21; John 5:39; Romans 15:4; 2 Samuel 23:2; Luke 1:70; 24:32,45; John 2:22; 10:35; 19:36; Acts 1:16; Romans 1:1,2; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; James 2:8. WHAT IS THE BIBLE? What is the Bible? How shall we regard it? Where shall we place it? These and many questions like them at once come to the front when we begin to discuss the Bible as a book. It is only possible in this brief study, of a great subject, to indicate the line of some of the answers. …
Henry T. Sell—Studies in the Life of the Christian Thoughts Upon the Appearance of Christ the Sun of Righteousness, or the Beatifick vision.
SO long as we are in the Body, we are apt to be governed wholly by its senses, seldom or never minding any thing but what comes to us through one or other of them. Though we are all able to abstract our Thoughts when we please from matter, and fix them upon things that are purely spiritual; there are but few that ever do it. But few, even among those also that have such things revealed to them by God himself, and so have infinitely more and firmer ground to believe them, than any one, or all their …
William Beveridge—Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life The Truth of God
The next attribute is God's truth. A God of truth and without iniquity; just and right is he.' Deut 32:4. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.' Psa 57:10. Plenteous in truth.' Psa 86:15. I. God is the truth. He is true in a physical sense; true in his being: he has a real subsistence, and gives a being to others. He is true in a moral sense; he is true sine errore, without errors; et sine fallacia, without deceit. God is prima veritas, the pattern and prototype …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles.
The work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets is an entirely distinctive work. He imparts to apostles and prophets an especial gift for an especial purpose. We read in 1 Cor. xii. 4, 8-11, 28, 29, R. V., "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.... For to one is given through the Spirit wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; and to another workings …
R. A. Torrey—The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit The Blessings of Noah Upon Shem and Japheth. (Gen. Ix. 18-27. )
Ver. 20. "And Noah began and became an husbandman, and planted vineyards."--This does not imply that Noah was the first who began to till the ground, and, more especially, to cultivate the vine; for Cain, too, was a tiller of the ground, Gen. iv. 2. The sense rather is, that Noah, after the flood, again took up this calling. Moreover, the remark has not an independent import; it serves only to prepare the way for the communication of the subsequent account of Noah's drunkenness. By this remark, …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament The Deity of the Holy Spirit.
In the preceding chapter we have seen clearly that the Holy Spirit is a Person. But what sort of a Person is He? Is He a finite person or an infinite person? Is He God? This question also is plainly answered in the Bible. There are in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments five distinct and decisive lines of proof of the Deity of the Holy Spirit. I. Each of the four distinctively Divine attributes is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. What are the distinctively Divine attributes? Eternity, omnipresence, …
R. A. Torrey—The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit How is Christ, as the Life, to be Applied by a Soul that Misseth God's Favour and Countenance.
The sixth case, that we shall speak a little to, is a deadness, occasioned by the Lord's hiding of himself, who is their life, and "the fountain of life," Ps. xxxvi. 9, and "whose loving-kindness is better than life," Ps. lxiii. 3, and "in whose favour is their life," Ps. xxx. 5. A case, which the frequent complaints of the saints manifest to be rife enough, concerning which we shall, 1. Shew some of the consequences of the Lord's hiding his face, whereby the soul's case will appear. 2. Shew the …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life Thoughts Upon the Mystery of the Trinity.
THOUGH there be many in the World that seem to be Religious, there are but few that are so: One great Reason whereof is, because there are so many Mistakes about Religion, that it is an hard matter to hit upon the true Notion of it: And therefore desiring nothing in this World, so much as to be an Instrument in God's Hand to direct Men unto true Religion, my great Care must, and, by the Blessing of God, shall be to instil into them right Conceptions of him, that is the only Object of all Religious …
William Beveridge—Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life The Covenant of Grace
Q-20: DID GOD LEAVE ALL MANKIND TO PERISH 1N THE ESTATE OF SIN AND MISERY? A: No! He entered into a covenant of grace to deliver the elect out of that state, and to bring them into a state of grace by a Redeemer. 'I will make an everlasting covenant with you.' Isa 55:5. Man being by his fall plunged into a labyrinth of misery, and having no way left to recover himself, God was pleased to enter into a new covenant with him, and to restore him to life by a Redeemer. The great proposition I shall go …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Samuel
Alike from the literary and the historical point of view, the book[1] of Samuel stands midway between the book of Judges and the book of Kings. As we have already seen, the Deuteronomic book of Judges in all probability ran into Samuel and ended in ch. xii.; while the story of David, begun in Samuel, embraces the first two chapters of the first book of Kings. The book of Samuel is not very happily named, as much of it is devoted to Saul and the greater part to David; yet it is not altogether inappropriate, …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links 2 Samuel 23:8 NIV2 Samuel 23:8 NLT2 Samuel 23:8 ESV2 Samuel 23:8 NASB2 Samuel 23:8 KJV
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