1 Chronicles 11:21

Of the three he is more honored than the [other] two, and becomes their head; but he has not come to the [first] three.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

In Context

20And Abishai brother of Joab, he has been head of the three: and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred—wounded, and has a name among three.

22Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a man of valor, of great deeds, from Kabzeel: he has struck the two lion-like Moabites, and he has gone down and struck the lion in the midst of the pit, in the day of snow.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:8and others fell on the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.

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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