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and said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
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Now Abi'shai, the brother of Jo'ab, the son of Zeru'iah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, and won a name beside the three.
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He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three
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And Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
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And he slew an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but Benai'ah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear
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These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.
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He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
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As'ahel the brother of Jo'ab was one of the thirty; Elha'nan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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Shammah of Harod, Eli'ka of Harod,
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Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Teko'a,
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Abi-e'zer, of An'athoth, Mebun'nai the Hu'shathite,