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Originally Posted by Luke
Three is more amazing than thirty, and almost seems impossible, and since God delights in impossibilities, it seems more likely that three would be right. And since the KJB says three, three it is  |
Hi Luke. Actually, I don't think the number Three is that difficult at all. Even Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's commentary has this to say: "The mighty men or champions in David's military staff were divided into three classes--the highest, Jashobeam, Eleazar, and Shammah; the second class, Abishai, Benaiah, and Asahel; and the third class, the thirty, of which Asahel was the chief."
We know from the Scriptures themselves in 1 Chron. 11 that both Abishai and Benaiah were two of the three men who risked their lives to draw water out of the well of Bethlehem. The other one is not named, but these three divisions apparently did exist in David's army.
Will K