1 Chronicles 11:25

25 Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three; and David set him over his guard.

1 Chronicles 11:25 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 11:25

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 11:1)

1 Chronicles 11:25 In-Context

23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. And in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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.

24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighties.

25 Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three; and David set him over his guard.

26 Also the valiant men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,