And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
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Gill's Exposition
And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite,.... One who was of the mountainous country, as the Targum, the hill country of Judea, of Hebron, or the parts adjacent; this was the third of…
Barnes' Notes
Hararite - Interpreted to mean “mountaineer,” one from the hill country of Judah or Ephraim.
Adam Clarke
A piece of ground full of lentiles - In Ch1 11:13 it is a parcel of ground full of barley. There is probably a mistake of עדשים adashim, lentiles, for שעורים seorim, barley, or vice versa. Some think…
Cambridge Bible
into a troop Probably the consonants should be read with different vowels to Lehi, the scene of Samson's victory over the Philistines (Jdg 15:9; Jdg 15:14; Jdg 15:19).
lentiles Chr. reads barley. The…
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