22
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
23
And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver's beam; but Benaiah went against him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
24
Such were the things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he won a name beside the three warriors.
25
He was renowned among the Thirty, but he did not attain to the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
26
The warriors of the armies were Asahel brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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