King James Version (KJV)
1 Chronicles 11:21
“Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first] three.”
Verse in context — 1 Chronicles 11
And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew [them], and had a name among the three.
Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first] three.
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: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand [was] a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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.
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Genealogies and David’s reign, emphasizing temple worship.
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