“He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.”
2 Samuel 23:23 (KJV) |
2 Samuel 23:23
From 2 Samuel 23, in the Book of 2 Samuel (Old Testament).
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And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but 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.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,