KJV King James Version
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
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1 Chronicles 11:25
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three: and David set him over his guard.
ASV American Standard Version
Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Of the thirty, lo, he is honoured, and unto the first three he hath not come, and David setteth him over his guard.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 11
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand [was] a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.
24 These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.
26 Also the valiant men of the armies [were], Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
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מִן־H4480 · minfromהַשְּׁלוֹשִׁ֗יםH7970 · she.lo.shimthirtyהִנּ֤וֹH2005 · henlook!נִכְבָּד֙H3513 · ka.vadto honor: honourה֔וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַשְּׁלוֹשָׁ֖הH7969 · sha.loshthreeלֹא־H3808 · lonotבָ֑אH935 · boto come (in): comeוַיְשִׂימֵ֥הוּH7760 · sumto set: makeדָוִ֖ידH1732 · da.vidDavidעַל־H5921 · aluponמִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ׃ סH4928 · mish.ma.atguard
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