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1 Chronicles 11:19-21
New English Translation
1 Chronicles 11:19-21
New English Translation
19 and said, “God forbid that I should do this![a] Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?”[b] Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.[c]
20 Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three[d] elite warriors. He killed 300 men with his spear[e] and gained fame along with the three elite warriors.[f] 21 From[g] the three he was given double honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of them.[h]
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- 1 Chronicles 11:19 tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”
- 1 Chronicles 11:19 tn Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.
- 1 Chronicles 11:19 tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”
- 1 Chronicles 11:20 tc The Syriac reads “thirty” here and at the beginning of v. 21; this reading is followed by some English translations (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
- 1 Chronicles 11:20 tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”
- 1 Chronicles 11:20 tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”
- 1 Chronicles 11:21 tn Or “more than.”
- 1 Chronicles 11:21 tn Heb “of the three.”
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