2-Samuel - 23:30



30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Samuel 23:30.

Differing Translations

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Banaia the Pharathonite, Heddai of the torrent Gaas,
Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the valleys of Gaash,
Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of Nahale-gaash;
Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the Torrent Gaash,

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Benaiah the Pirathonite,.... Who was of Pirathon, a city in the tribe of Ephraim, Judges 12:15.
Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash; which perhaps ran by the hill Gaash, and was also in the tribe of Ephraim, Joshua 24:30. This man is called Hurai, 1-Chronicles 11:32.

Benaiah of Phir'aton in the tribe of Ephraim, a place which has been preserved in the village of Fer'ata, to the south-west of Nablus (see at Judges 12:13). Hiddai (wrongly spelt Hudai in the Chronicles), out of the valleys of Gaash, in the tribe of Ephraim by the mountain of Gaash, the situation of which has not yet been discovered (see at Joshua 24:30).

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