Pelishtim (Hastings' Dictionary)

RVm of Gn 10“=PHILISTINES (which see). PELONITE, THE (°$$57; in 1 Ch 11” Β ὁ Φελωνεί, A ὁ Φαλλωνί; in v.% Β ὁ Φεδωνεί, A ὁ Φελλωνί ; in 1 ΟἹ 27" B A ὁ ἐκ Φαλλού:)., -Τ wo οὗ David’s heroes are thus described (1 Ch 117-), viz. Helez and Ahijah. In 2S 23% the former is called ‘the Paltite,’ and, though the LXX A in that passage agrees with the reading of the Chronicler, it is probable that the MT has preserved the better text.

This view is confirmed by the fact that, in the case of the second hero, the reading of 1 Ch 1135 (ng y55n) is clearly a mutilation of the fuller text preserved in ὦ Καὶ 23% (ban Sonny 13 oy>x ‘ Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite’). e must therefore read ‘ Helez the Paltite’ in 1 Ch 1177 27”: the addition ‘ of the children of Ephraim’ (0758 3379 27°) not improbably conceals the gentilic name. J. Ε΄ STENNING.