King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 11:27 Mean?
“Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, Shammoth: or, Shammah Harorite: or, Harodite Pelonite: or, Paltite”
Context
25
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
26
Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, Shammoth: or, Shammah Harorite: or, Harodite Pelonite: or, Paltite
28
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
29
Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, Sibbecai: or, Mebunnai Ilai: or, Zalmon
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(27) **Shammoth the Harorite.**—Samuel has “Shammah (of which Shammoth is plural) the Harodite.” A place called Harod occurs in Judges 7:1. (Comp. also 1Chronicles 27:8, Note.) 2Samuel 23:26 adds another Harodite, Elika (? Elikam), omitted here by accident.
**Helez the Pelonite.**—Samuel, “the Paltite,” perhaps more correctly. The Syriac and Arabic read “of Palton” and “Faltûna.” Bethpelet was a town of Judah (Nehemiah 11:26), but 1Chronicles 27:10 calls Helez “the Pelonite of the sons of Ephraim.” The Heb. *peloni* (Authorised Version, Pelonite), means *so-and-so,* and may be a scribe’s substitute for an illegible name.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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