1 Chronicles 11:21

21 He was highly honored by the Thirty - he was their chief - still, he didn't measure up to the Three.

1 Chronicles 11:21 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 11:21

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 11:1)

1 Chronicles 11:21 In-Context

19 saying, "I'd rather be damned by God than drink this! It would be like drinking the lifeblood of these men - they risked their lives to bring it." So he refused to drink it. These are the kinds of things that the Big Three of the Mighty Men did.

20 Abishai brother of Joab was the chief of the Thirty. Singlehandedly he fought three hundred men, and killed the lot, but he never made it into the circle of the Three.

21 He was highly honored by the Thirty - he was their chief - still, he didn't measure up to the Three.

22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a Mighty Man from Kabzeel with many exploits to his credit: he killed two famous Moabites; he climbed down into a pit and killed a lion on a snowy day;

23 and he killed an Egyptian, a giant seven and a half feet tall. The Egyptian had a spear like a ship's boom but Benaiah went at him with a mere club, tore the spear from the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with it.