1 Chronicles 11:24

These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

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These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.

In Context

23And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.

25He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:28And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 11:11-47

David's Mighty Men. ( b. c. 1048.) 10 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel. 11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time. 12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.… Read the whole commentary →

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