Jashobeam

Gender: Male

Years: -1055 - -1015

Dictionary Text: Dweller among the people; or to whom the people turn, the Hachmonite, one of David’s chief heroes who joined him at Ziklag. 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. He is also called Adino the Eznite.

Disambiguation Notes: Jashobeam (a chief officer and Hakmonite)

Family Members

• Father: Zabdiel

Verses

• 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.
• 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.