²¹ He was more well-known than the Three,^[a] but he never attained the stature of the Three.

²² Jehoiada’s son Benaiah, who was a valiant man, accomplished great things. He was from Kabzeel. He killed two men named^[b] Ariel from Moab^[c] and then he also went down into a pit and struck down a lion during a snow storm one day. ²³ He also killed a soldier^[d] from Egypt of enormous height—five cubits^[e] tall. The Egyptian carried a spear comparable in size to a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah attacked him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.