2 Samuel 23:23

World English Bible (2000)

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 22:14 : 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
  • 2 Sam 8:8 : 8 From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
  • 2 Sam 20:23 : 23 Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
  • 1 Chr 27:6 : 6 This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and [of] his division was Ammizabad his son.

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  • 1 Chr 11:23-26
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    93%

    23He killed 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 killed 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 didn't attain to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

    26Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

  • 2 Sam 23:16-22
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    86%

    16The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

    17He said, "Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn't it the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

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

    19Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

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

    21He killed 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 killed him with his own spear.

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

  • 1 Chr 11:20-21
    2 verses
    85%

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

    21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

  • 2 Sam 23:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    24Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

    25Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

  • 1 Chr 27:5-6
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    72%

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

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

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

  • 2 Sam 23:29-32
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    29Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

    30Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.

    31Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

    32Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

  • 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 about the king.

  • 2 Sam 23:39
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    39Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

  • 2 Sam 23:9
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    9After 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 who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

  • 1 Chr 11:11
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    11This 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 killed them at one time.

  • 1 Chr 27:34
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    34and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's army was Joab.

  • 1 Chr 12:9
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    9Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

  • 1 Sam 18:30
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    30Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

  • 1 Chr 27:14
    66%

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

  • 2 Sam 23:37
    66%

    37Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah,

  • 1 Chr 12:29
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    29Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

  • 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 chief ministers.

  • 2 Sam 23:13
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    13Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 2 Sam 23:34
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    34Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

  • 1 Kgs 2:34
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    34Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 2:30-31
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    30Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

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

  • Ezra 10:35
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    35Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

  • 1 Sam 26:15
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    15David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

  • 1 Chr 11:33
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    33Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

  • 1 Chr 12:3
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    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 Sam 30:23
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    23Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
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    14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Chr 26:32
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    32His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers' [houses], whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.

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