Cherethites:
(executioners). and of King David (2 Samuel 8:18; 15:18; 20:7; 20:23; 1 Kings 1:38; 1:44; 1 Chronicles 18:17). It is plain that these royal guards were employed as executioners (2 Kings 11:4) and as couriers (1 Kings 14:27). But it has been conjectured that they may have been foreign mercenaries, and therefore probably Philistines, of which name Pelethites may be only another form.
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