He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.
Was he not most honourable of three?.... He was; who, besides the exploit here mentioned, did many other things; he went down with David into Saul's camp, and took away his spear and cruse, which were at his bolster, Sa1 26:6; he relieved David when in danger from Ishbibenob the giant, Sa2 21:16; he beat the Edomites, and slew eighteen thousand of them in the...
2Sa 23:8-39 The following list of David’s heroes we also find in 1 Chron 11:10-47, and expanded at the end by sixteen names (1Ch 11:41-47), and attached in 1Ch 11:10 to the account of the conquest of the fortress of Zion by the introduction of a special heading.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 23:8-39