1 Chronicles 11:19-21

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¹⁹ and said, “My God forbid that I should do this. Can I drink the blood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. The three warriors did these things.

²⁰ Now Abishai,^[a] the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty.^[b] With his spear he fought against three hundred and killed them and won a name^[c] beside the Three.^{(A) 21} He was the most renowned^[d] of the Thirty^[e] and became their commander, but he did not attain to the Three.^(B)