Sinai1 Chronicles 11:23
American Standard Version
And 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.
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1 Chronicles 11:23 in other translations
He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles 11:23 in context
- 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.
- 24These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
- 25Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.