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And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
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And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and] slew [them], and had the name among three.
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Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: yet he attained not to the [first] three
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
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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
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These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among three mighty men.
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He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
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Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
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Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
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Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
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Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,