📖WEB · 2 Samuel 23:22
What does 2 Samuel 23:22 mean?
"Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men."
— 2 Samuel 23:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
He killed a huge Egyptian, 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 killed him with his own spear.
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
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