Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

2 SAMUEL 23:39KJV
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2 Samuel 23:39 (KJV)

What does 2 Samuel 23:39 mean?

2 Samuel 23:39 lists "Uriah the Hittite" as the final name among David’s mighty men, stating that there were thirty-seven in all. This verse closes a roster of elite warriors who served King David, highlighting Uriah’s inclusion and the total number.

This verse is part of a longer passage where the writer records the names of David’s most distinguished fighters. Uriah the Hittite, famously known from the story involving Bathsheba, is counted as one of these honored men. The mention of "thirty and seven in all" sums up the entire group, marking the end of the list and emphasizing the completeness of David’s band of heroes.

Where else these words appear

“Uriah” Hebrew H223 · used in 33 verses

  • 2 Samuel 11:3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
  • 2 Samuel 11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
  • 2 Kings 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.

“Hittite” Hebrew H2850 · used in 47 verses

  • Genesis 15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
  • Numbers 13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
  • 2 Samuel 11:21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.