1 Chronicles 11:25

25 He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

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 made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.
24 These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.
25 He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.
26 And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
27 Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite,
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