2 Samuel 23:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.

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  • 2 Sam 23:9 : 9 After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight,
  • 2 Sam 23:13 : 13 And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.
  • 2 Sam 23:16 : 16 And the three men, forcing their way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David: but he would not take it, but, draining it out, made an offering of it to the Lord.
  • 1 Chr 11:25 : 25 He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.
  • Matt 13:8 : 8 And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
  • Matt 13:23 : 23 And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
  • 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 the glory of one star is different from that of another.

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

    19Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.

    20And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, for he put to death three hundred with his spear, but he had not a name among the three.

    21Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three.

    22Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.

    23And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

    24These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

    25He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

  • 2 Sam 23:20-24
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    86%

    20And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:

    21And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

    22These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

    23He was honoured over the rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe.

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

  • 2 Sam 23:16-18
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    82%

    16And the three men, forcing their way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David: but he would not take it, but, draining it out, made an offering of it to the Lord.

    17And he said, Far be it from me, O Lord, to do this; how may I take as my drink the life-blood of men who have put their lives in danger? So he would not take it. These things did the three great men of war.

    18And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. He put to death three hundred with his spear, and he got for himself a name among the thirty.

  • 1 Chr 11:11
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    11This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear.

  • 1 Chr 27:5-6
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    69%

    5The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

    6This is the same Benaiah who was the great man of the thirty, chief of the thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad his son.

  • 2 Sam 20:23
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    23Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

  • 1 Chr 12:9
    68%

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

  • 1 Chr 18:17
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    17And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.

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

    29May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!

    30So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    67%

    29And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.

  • 1 Chr 11:6
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    6And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.

  • 1 Chr 12:3
    66%

    3Ahiezer was their chief, 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%

    34After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 1 Sam 26:15
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    15And David said to Abner, Are you not a man of war? is there any other like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for one of the people came in to put the king your lord to death.

  • 1 Chr 23:19
    65%

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

  • Isa 3:3
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    3The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

  • 1 Chr 21:6
    65%

    6But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

  • 2 Sam 18:2
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    2And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

  • 1 Chr 27:14
    65%

    14The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

  • 2 Sam 3:37-38
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    65%

    37So it was clear to Israel and to all the people on that day that the king was not responsible for the death of Abner, the son of Ner.

    38And the king said to his servants, Do you not see that a chief and a great man has come to his end today in Israel?

  • 2 Sam 23:13
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    13And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    65%

    23Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.

  • 1 Chr 21:3
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    3And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

  • 2 Sam 3:34
    64%

    34Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
    64%

    32And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 17:13-14
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    64%

    13And the three oldest sons of Jesse had gone with Saul to the fight: the names of the three who went to the fight were Eliab, the oldest, and Abinadab the second, and Shammah the third.

    14And David was the youngest: and the three oldest were with Saul's army.

  • 2 Sam 3:22-23
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    64%

    22Now the servants of David and Joab had been out attacking a band of armed men, and they came back with a great store of goods taken in the fight: but Abner was no longer in Hebron with David, for he had sent him away and he had gone in peace.

    23When Joab and his men came, news was given them that Abner, the son of Ner, had come to the king, who had let him go away again in peace.

  • 2 Sam 8:18
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    18And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.

  • 2 Sam 23:9
    64%

    9After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight,

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    64%

    31But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

  • 1 Kgs 1:8
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    8But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.

  • 2 Kgs 10:3
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    3Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.

  • 2 Sam 19:13
    63%

    13And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!