Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Chronicles 11:27

"Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite," — 1 Chronicles 11:27 (ASV)

Shammoth the Harorite. Samuel has “Shammah (of which Shammoth is plural) the Harodite.” A place called Harod occurs in Judges 7:1. (Compare also 1 Chronicles 27:8, Note.) 2 Samuel 23:26 adds another Harodite, Elika (? Elikam), omitted here by accident.

Helez the Pelonite. Samuel has “the Paltite,” perhaps more correctly. The Syriac and Arabic read “of Palton” and “Faltûna.” Bethpelet was a town of Judah (Nehemiah 11:26), but 1 Chronicles 27:10 calls Helez “the Pelonite of the sons of Ephraim.” The Hebrew peloni (Authorised Version, Pelonite), means so-and-so, and may be a scribe’s substitute for an illegible name.