23:9 Next in command9 was Eleazar son of Dodo,10 the son of Ahohi. He was one of the three warriors who were with David when they defied the Philistines who were assembled there for battle. When the men of Israel retreated,11
tc This follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading דֹּדוֹ (dodo) rather than the Kethib of the MTדֹּדַי (dodai; cf. ASV, NIV, NLT). But see 1 Chr 27:4.