1 Chronicles 11:24

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

1 Chronicles 11:24 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 11:24

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 11:1)

1 Chronicles 11:24 In-Context

22 Benayah the son of Yehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kavtz'el, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ari'el of Mo'av: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

23 He killed a Mitzrian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Mitzrian'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 Mitzrian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

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

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

26 Also the mighty men of the armies: `Asa'el the brother of Yo'av, Elchanan the son of Dodo of Beit-Lechem,