King James Version with Apocrypha
"He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard."
— 2 Samuel 23:23, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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 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.”
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth–lehem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,