2 Samuel 8:18

18and aBenaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
Compare 20:23, 1 Chronicles 18:17, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks  was over
the cCherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were priests.

2 Samuel 15:18

18And dall his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from eGath, passed on before the king.

2 Samuel 20:7

7And there went out after him Joab’s men and the fCherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 20:23

23 gNow Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

2 Samuel 23:19-23

19He was the most renowned of the thirty
Compare 1 Chronicles 11:25; Hebrew Was he the most renowned of the three?
and became their commander, but he did not attain to ithe three.

20And jBenaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man
Or the son of Ishhai
of lKabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels
The meaning of the word ariel is unknown
of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
21And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, 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. 22These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men. 23He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

1 Kings 1:38

38So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, nand the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule and brought him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:44

44and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the oCherethites and the Pelethites. And they had him ride on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 2:34-35

34Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 35 pThe king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put qZadok the priest rin the place of Abiathar.

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