2 Samuel 23:19

American Standard Version (1901)

Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.

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  • 2 Sam 23:9 : 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
  • 2 Sam 23:13 : 13 And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Sam 23:16 : 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah.
  • 1 Chr 11:25 : 25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
  • Matt 13:8 : 8 and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
  • Matt 13:23 : 23 And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

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  • 1 Chr 11:19-25
    7 verses
    92%

    19and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

    20And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.

    21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first] three.

    22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

    23And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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.

    24These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.

    25Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

  • 2 Sam 23:20-24
    5 verses
    86%

    20And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

    21And 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.

    22These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.

    23He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.

    24Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

  • 2 Sam 23:16-18
    3 verses
    82%

    16And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah.

    17And he said, Be it far from me, O Jehovah, that I should do this: [shall I drink] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

    18And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.

  • 1 Chr 11:11
    69%

    11And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them at one time.

  • 1 Chr 27:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

    6This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and [of] his course was Ammizabad his son.

  • 2 Sam 20:23
    68%

    23Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

  • 1 Chr 12:9
    68%

    9Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

  • 1 Chr 18:17
    67%

    17and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

  • 2 Sam 3:29-30
    2 verses
    67%

    29let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth by the sword, or that lacketh bread.

    30So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    67%

    29And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

  • 1 Chr 11:6
    66%

    6And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

  • 1 Chr 12:3
    66%

    3The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite,

  • 1 Chr 27:34
    66%

    34and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's host was Joab.

  • 1 Sam 26:15
    66%

    15And David said to Abner, Art not thou a [valiant] man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept watch over thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

  • 1 Chr 23:19
    65%

    19The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

  • Isa 3:3
    65%

    3the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.

  • 1 Chr 21:6
    65%

    6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

  • 2 Sam 18:2
    65%

    2And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

  • 1 Chr 27:14
    65%

    14The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
    2 verses
    65%

    37So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.

    38And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

  • 2 Sam 23:13
    65%

    13And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    65%

    23Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which Jehovah hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Chr 21:3
    65%

    3And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?

  • 2 Sam 3:34
    64%

    34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again over him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
    64%

    32And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 17:13-14
    2 verses
    64%

    13And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

    14And David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-23
    2 verses
    64%

    22And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

    23When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

  • 2 Sam 8:18
    64%

    18and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers.

  • 2 Sam 23:9
    64%

    9And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    64%

    31But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred and threescore men died.

  • 1 Kgs 1:8
    64%

    8But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men that belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

  • 2 Kgs 10:3
    64%

    3look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

  • 2 Sam 19:13
    63%

    13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.