2 Samuel 23:23

He was more honored than the thirty; but he attained not to these three. And David appointed him in his private council.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

In Context

22These things did Benayahu the son of Yehoyada', and he had a name among the three mighty men.

24'Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elchanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lechem,

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:8And from Betach, and from Berothai, cities of Hadad'ezer, did king David take exceedingly much copper.

1 Chronicles 27:6This Benayahu was the mighty among the thirty, and [set] over the thirty'; and of his division was 'Ammizabad his son.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 23:9-39

David's Mighty Men. ( b. c. 1054.) 8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his… Read the whole commentary →

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