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And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
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And David [was] then in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines [was] then [in] Beth-lehem
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And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which [is] by the gate!
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And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
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And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
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And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and] slew [them], and had the name among three.
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Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: yet he attained not to the [first] three
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
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And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear
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These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among three mighty men.
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He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.