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Jashobeam
Dweller among the people; or to whom the people turn, the Hachmonite (1 Chr 11:11), one of David’s chief heroes who joined him at Ziklag (1 Chr 12:6). He was the first of the three who broke through the host of the Philistines to fetch water to David from the well of Bethlehem (2 Sam 23:13–17). He is also called Adino the Eznite (8).
Named in the Bible
3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 11:11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
- 1 Chronicles 12:6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,
- 1 Chronicles 27:2 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
