18. Abishai, 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 amongst the three.
19. Wasn’t he most honourable of the three? therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
20. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
21. He killed a huge Egyptian, 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.
22. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name amongst the three mighty men.
23. He was more honourable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
24. Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
25. Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,