OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 23:19

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Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

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Verse 19. Three. Hebrew haci, seems to be mistaken for bossnim, “above two;” as one of the Greek versions in the Hexapla renders it, with the Septuagint “Of the three he was more honourable than two; therefore he was their captain, and yet to,” and so forth Thus we see a double ternary fully established, verse 8. Kennicott.

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