1 Chronicles 11:24

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

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 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of great acts, of Kabzeel; he slew two lions of Moab; he also went down and slew a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
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 the name among the three mighties.
25 He was the most honoured among the thirty, but did not attain to the first three. And David placed him in his council.
26 Also the valiant men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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