2 Samuel 23:22

22 These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

2 Samuel 23:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 23:22

These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
Slew a lion, and two lion-like men of Moab, and an Egyptian of a gigantic stature, ( 2 Samuel 23:20 2 Samuel 23:21 ) :

and had the name among three mighty men;
of which he was one, and Abishai another, the third Asahel, one of the thirty; or was over them, ( 2 Samuel 23:24 ) , since thirty are reckoned without him. Abarbinel thinks that the third was Adina, the son of Shiza, the Reubenite, ( 1 Chronicles 11:42 ) ; since thirty were with him, and he at the head of them.

2 Samuel 23:22 In-Context

20 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.

21 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

22 These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

23 He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

24 As'ahel the brother of Jo'ab was one of the thirty; Elha'nan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,