World English Bible
"He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard."
— 2 Samuel 23:23, World English Bible
“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 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.”
“He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.”
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
He killed 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 killed him with his own spear.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the [first] three. David set him over his guard.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,