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1 Chronicles 11:21-36 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

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

22. 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.

23. And 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.

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

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

26. Also the mighty men of the armies; Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

27. Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite;

28. Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite;

29. Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite;

30. Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite;

31. Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite;

32. Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite;

33. Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite;

34. the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite;

35. Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur;

36. Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite;

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