Midrash for Moed Katan 32:29
אמר רבי תנחום בריה דרבי חייא איש כפר עכו אמר רבי יעקב בר אחא אמר ר' שמלאי ואמרי לה אמר ר' תנחום אמר רב הונא ואמרי לה אמר רב הונא לחודיה
Rab explained: The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him [to David], 'Since you have humbled yourself you shall be like Me [that is], that I make a decree and you [may] annul it'.' Chief of the Captains',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Explained as Chief of the Trio, the three Patriarchs. isg');"><sup>41</sup></span> [that is] you be chief next to the three Fathers. He is Adino<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From = 'gentle'; he was gentle, tender.');"><sup>42</sup></span> the Eznite,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' ** _ wood; the wooden lance. Cf. I Sam. XVIl, 7. Cf. on this section, Seder Elijahu Rabbah Ed. M. Friedmann, III, pp. 15-16.');"><sup>43</sup></span> [that is] when he was sitting engaged in the [study of] Torah he rendered himself pliant as a worm, but when he went marching out to [wage] war he hardened himself like a lance.' On eight hundred slain at one time', [that is] when he threw a javelin he felled eight hundred slain at one time and moaned for the [shortage of] two hundred, for it is written: How one should chase a thousand.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXII, 30.');"><sup>44</sup></span> But an echo came forth and said: 'Save only for the matter of Uriah the Hittite'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings XV, 5.');"><sup>45</sup></span> Said R'Tanhuni son of R'Hiyya a man of Kefar Acco as citing R'Jacob B'Aha who reported R'Simlai; and some say, R'Tanhun, said as reporting R'Huna; and again some say, R'Huna alone said that