19. And he said, “Far be it from me, O my Elohim, that I should do this! Should I drink the blood of these men who have risked their lives? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” And he would not drink it. This is what the three mighty men did.
20. And Aḇishai the brother of Yo’aḇ was chief of another three. And he had lifted up his spear against three hundred men, who were slain, and won a name among the three.
21. Of the three he was more esteemed than the other two men, so he became their head. However he did not come to the first three.
22. Benayah was the son of Yehoyaḏa, the son of a brave man from Qaḇtse’ĕl, who had done many deeds. He smote two lion-like Mo’aḇites. He also went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
23. And he smote a Mitsrian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. And in the Mitsrian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam, and he went down to him with a staff and wrenched the spear out of the Mitsrian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
24. This is what Benayahu son of Yehoyaḏa did, and won a name among the three mighty men.
25. See, he was more esteemed than the thirty, but he did not come to the first three. And Dawiḏ set him over his court.
26. And the mighty men of the armies were Asah’ĕl the brother of Yo’aḇ, Elḥanan son of Doḏo of Bĕyth Leḥem,
27. Shammoth the Harorite, Ḥĕlets the Pelonite,
28. Ira son of Iqqĕsh the Teqowite, Aḇi‛ezer the Anathothite,
29. Sibbeḵai the Ḥushathite, Ilai the Aḥoḥite,
30. Maharai the Netophathite, Ḥĕleḏ son of Ba‛anah the Netophathite,