2 Samuel 23:22

22 These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and gained a name for himself among the three mighty warriors.

2 Samuel 23:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 23:22

These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
Slew a lion, and two lion-like men of Moab, and an Egyptian of a gigantic stature, ( 2 Samuel 23:20 2 Samuel 23:21 ) :

and had the name among three mighty men;
of which he was one, and Abishai another, the third Asahel, one of the thirty; or was over them, ( 2 Samuel 23:24 ) , since thirty are reckoned without him. Abarbinel thinks that the third was Adina, the son of Shiza, the Reubenite, ( 1 Chronicles 11:42 ) ; since thirty were with him, and he at the head of them.

2 Samuel 23:22 In-Context

20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of Ish-Hai, [was] a great [man] of deeds from Kabzeel. He struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

21 He also killed a good-looking Egyptian man, in whose hand [was] a spear. He went down against him with the staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his spear

22 These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and gained a name for himself among the three mighty warriors.

23 He [was] honored more than the thirty, but he did not come up to the three. David appointed him in charge of his bodyguard.

24 Among the thirty [were] Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,