22. Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He killed two Moabite warriors. Indeed, once he went down into a well and struck a lion on a snowy day.
23. And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam, and he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear from the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
24. Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, did these things, and won a name among the three mighty men.
25. Out of the thirty captains, he himself was honored, and although he did not attain to the three, David set him over his guard.
26. Now the other mighty men of valor of the army wereAsahel the brother of Joab,Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27. Shammoth the Harorite,Helez the Pelonite,
28. Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,Abiezer the Anathothite,
29. Sibbekai the Hushathite,Ilai the Ahohite,
30. Maharai the Netophathite,Heled the son of Baanah, the Netophathite,
31. Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah in Benjamin,Benaiah the Pirathonite,