Bible in Basic English
"He was honoured over the rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe."
— 2 Samuel 23:23, Bible in Basic English
“He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.”
“He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard. ”
“He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. 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.”
“And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the most honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first three: and David made him of his privy council.”
“He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.”
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: 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 tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands 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 rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe.
Asahel, the brother of Joab, was one of the thirty; and Elhanan, the son of Dodai, of Beth-lehem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,