Shmuel Bais 23:23

23 He was more honored than the Shloshim, but he attained not to the first Three. And Dovid set him over his bodyguard.

Shmuel Bais 23:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 23:23

He was more honourable than the thirty
Whose names are after recorded:

but he attained not to the [first] three;
the first triumvirate, Jashobeam, Eleazar, and Shammah; he was not equal to them for fortitude, courage, and military exploits:

and David set him over his guard;
his bodyguard, the Cherethites and Pelethites, ( 2 Samuel 8:18 ) ( 20:23 ) ; who are called in the Hebrew text "his hearing" ^F13, because they hearkened to his orders and commands, and obeyed them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (wtemvm la) "ad auditum suum", Pagninus, Montanus.

Shmuel Bais 23:23 In-Context

21 And he slaughtered an Egyptian, a goodly man; and the Egyptian had a khanit (spear) in his yad; but he went down to him with a shevet (club), and plucked the khanit out of the Egyptian’s yad, and slaughtered him with his own khanit.

22 These things did Benayah Ben Yehoyada, and had the shem among three gibborim.

23 He was more honored than the Shloshim, but he attained not to the first Three. And Dovid set him over his bodyguard.

24 Asah-el the brother of Yoav was one of the thirty; Elchanan Ben Dodo of Beit-Lechem,

25 Shammah the Harodi, Elika the Charodi,