15. And three of the thirty chiefs went down toward the rock to David at the cave of Adullam when the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
16. And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
17. And David had a craving, and he said, “Who could give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”
18. Then the three broke through into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and brought it and came to David. But David would not drink it and poured it out before Yahweh.
19. And he said, “Far be it from me that I would do this before my God. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
20. Now Abishai the brother of Joab was himself the head of the three. And he roused himself with his spear against three hundred whom he killed and made a name for himself among the three.
21. He was twice as renowned among the three and was their commander. But he did not attain to the three.
22. And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a strong man from Kabzeel, one who did great deeds. He himself struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. And he himself went down and struck down a lion within a pit on a snowy day.
23. And he himself struck down an Egyptian man, a large man five cubits tall. And in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a weaver’s beam. But he went down to him with a club and seized the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear.
24. These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did and had a name among the three mighty warriors.
25. He himself was certainly distinguished among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard.
26. Now the mighty warriors of the troops were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem,
27. Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,