1 Chronicles 11:21
Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the three.
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Context
19 And said, My Elohim forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew , and had a name among the three.
21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the three.
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 stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand 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.