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2 Samuel 23:19

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Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

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Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

2 Samuel 23:19 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 23:19 in context

  1. 17He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
  2. 18Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
  3. 19Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
  4. 20Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
  5. 21He killed a huge Egyptian, 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.