Add parallel Print Page Options

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)

22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant man[f] of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he struck down two sons of[g] Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.(C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 11.20 Gk Vg Tg: Heb Abshai
  2. 11.20 Syr: Heb Three
  3. 11.20 Gk Vg Tg Syr: Heb did not attain
  4. 11.21 Heb more renowned among the two
  5. 11.21 Syr: Heb Three
  6. 11.22 Syr: Heb the son of a valiant man
  7. 11.22 Lucianic: Heb lacks sons of