Bible in Basic English
"He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants."
— 1 Chronicles 11:25, Bible in Basic English
“Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.”
“Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard. ”
“Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.”
“He received honor from the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.”
Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.
And 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.
These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.
He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.
And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite,
Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,