22 1Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiantman of Kabzeel, mighty in deeds, struckdown the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also wentdown and killed a lioninside a pit on a snowyday.
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1 Chronicles 11:22 In-Context
20 As for Abshai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the thirty, and he swung his spear against three hundred and killed them; and he had a name as well as the thirty.
21 Of the three in the second rank he was the most honored and became their commander; however, he did not attain to the first three.
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, mighty in deeds, struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion inside a pit on a snowy day.
23 He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature five cubits tall. Now in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
24 These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three mighty men.