1 Chronicles 11:24

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

1 Chronicles 11:24 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 11:24

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 11:1)

1 Chronicles 11:24 In-Context

22 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: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

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 the 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 Beth-lehem,