Sinai1 Chronicles 11:21
American Standard Version
Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
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1 Chronicles 11:21 in other translations
Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.
1 Chronicles 11:21 in context
- 19and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
- 20And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.
- 21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
- 22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
- 23And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.