He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 23:23 in context
2 Samuel 23:20–26
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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.
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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.
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Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
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He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
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Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
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Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
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