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19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men [a]that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

20 And [b]Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred [c]and slew them, and had a name among the three. 21 [d]Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:19 Hebrew with their lives.
  2. 1 Chronicles 11:20 Hebrew Abshai.
  3. 1 Chronicles 11:20 Hebrew slain.
  4. 1 Chronicles 11:21 Or, Of the three in the second rank he was the most honorable