1 Chronicles 11:18-40
English Standard Version
Chapter 11
18Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David. But David would not drink it. He poured it out to the Lord 19and said, "Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
20Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three.
21He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.
22And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.
23And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver 's beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian 's hand and killed him with his own spear.
24These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and won a name beside the three mighty men.
25He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.
26The mighty men were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
27Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pelonite,
28Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth,
29Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30Maharai of Netophah, Heled the son of Baanah of Netophah,
31Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah of Pirathon,
32Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
33Azmaveth of Baharum, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
34Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
35Ahiam the son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
36Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
37Hezro of Carmel, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
38Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
39Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
40Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
