1 Chronicles 11:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ “God forbid that I should do that,” he said. “Isn’t this the blood of men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Since they had brought it at the risk of their lives, David refused to drink it.

These were the kinds of things the three warriors did.

²⁰ Abishai, Joab’s brother, was chief of the Thirty.^[a] He raised his spear against the three hundred men he had slain, but he wasn’t considered one of the Three. ²¹ He was the most famous of the Thirty. He became their commander, but he wasn’t among the Three.