1 Chronicles 11:24

These things did Banaias the son of Joiada, who was renowned among the three valiant ones,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And he slew an Egyptian, whose stature was of five cubits, and who had a spear like a weaver's beam: and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked away the spear, that he held in his hand, and slew him with his own spear.

25And the first among the thirty, but yet to the three he attained not: and David made him of his council.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:28Sadoc also a young man of excellent disposition, and the house of his father, twenty-two principal men.

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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