1 Chronicles 11:24

These things, did Benaiah son of Jehoiada, so, he, had a name among three heroes.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23he, also smote an Egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits, and, in the hand of the Egyptian, was a spear like a weaver’s beam, so he went down unto him with a staff,—and wrested the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with his spear.

25Among the thirty, lo! honourable, was he, but, unto the [first] three, did he not attain,—howbeit David set him over his council.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:28and Zadok, a young man, a hero of valour,—and the house of his father, captains twenty and two.

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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