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Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three (23:19) And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: (23:20) 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 (23:21) These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men (23:22) He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard (23:23) Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, (23:24) Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, (23:25) Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, (23:26) Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, (23:27) Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, (23:28) Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, (23:29) Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, (23:30) Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, (23:31) Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, (23:32) Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, (23:33) Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, (23:34) Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, (23:35) Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, (23:36) Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, (23:37) Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, (23:38) Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all
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