Holy Scripture

1 Chronicles 11:23

Source: Septuagint

Original

23And he smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits high; and in the hand of the Egyptian there was a spear like a weavers’ beam; and Benaiah went down to him with a staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

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In context

21He was more famous than the two others of the three, and he was chief over them; yet he reached not to the first three.

22And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was the son of a mighty man: many were his acts for Kabzeel: he smote two lionlike men of Moab, and he went down and smote a lion in a pit on a snowy day.

— 1 Chronicles 11:23 —

24These things did Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and his name was among the three mighties.

25He was distinguished beyond the thirty, yet he reached not to the first three: and David set him over his family.

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