2 Samuel 1:23
23 “Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely!In life and in death they were not divided;
they were aswifter than eagles;
they were bstronger than lions.
1 Chronicles 11:22-24
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 elike 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. 1 Chronicles 12:8
8From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were fswift as gazelles upon the mountains:
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