Chronicles I 11:21

21 He was more famous than the two of the three, and he was chief them; yet he reached not to the three.

Chronicles I 11:21 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 11:21

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 11:1)

Chronicles I 11:21 In-Context

19 God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? for with their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty .
20 And Abisa the brother of Joab, he was chief of three: he drew his sword against three hundred slain at one time, and he had a name among the three.
21 He was more famous than the two of the three, and he was chief them; yet he reached not to the three.
22 And Banaia the son of Jodae was the son of a mighty man: many his acts for Cabasael: he smote two lion-like men of Moab, and he went down and smote a lion in a pit on a snowy day.
23 And he smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits ; and in the hand of the Egyptian a spear like a weavers' beam; and Banaia went down to him with a staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

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