1 Chronicles 11:25

25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

1 Chronicles 11:25 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 11:25

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 11:1)

1 Chronicles 11:25 In-Context

23 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.

24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.

25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

26 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,