1 Chronicles 11:15-25
15Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the aValley of Rephaim. 16David was then in the stronghold, and the bgarrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. 17And David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!” 18Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David. But David would not drink it. He poured it out to the Lord 19and said, “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.20Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. ▼
▼Syriac; Hebrew three
And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three. 21He was the most renowned ▼▼Compare 2 Samuel 23:19; Hebrew more renowned among the two
of the thirty ▼▼Syriac; Hebrew three
and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three. 22And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man ▼
▼Syriac; Hebrew the son of a valiant man
of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen. 23And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear hlike a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear. 24These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and won a name beside the three mighty men. 25He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
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