1 Chronicles 11:21
“Of the three, hee was more honourable then the two, for he was their captaine; howbeit, he attained not to the first three.”
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1 Chronicles 11:21 Context
19And said, My God forbid it mee, that I should doe this thing. Shall I drinke the blood of these men, that haue put their liues in ieopardie? for with the ieopardie of their liues, they brought it: therfore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest. 20¶ And Abishai the brother of Ioab, he was chiefe of the three. For lifting vp his speare against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three. 21Of the three, hee was more honourable then the two, for he was their captaine; howbeit, he attained not to the first three. 22Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, the sonne of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts: he slue two Lyon-like men of Moab, also he went downe and slue a Lyon in a pit in a snowy day. 23And he slue an Egyptian, a man of great stature, fiue cubits high, and in the Egyptians hand was a speare like a weauers beame: and he went downe to him with a staffe, and pluckt the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slue him with his owne speare.
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Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the [first] three.
- King James Version
Of the three in the second {rank} he was the most honored and became their commander; however, he did not attain to the {first} three.
- New American Standard Version (1995)