English Revised Version

1 Chronicles 11:20-26 English Revised Version (ERV)

20. And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.

21. Of the three, he was more honourable than the two and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

22. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

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 a name among the three mighty men.

25. Behold, he was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

26. Also the mighty men of the armies; Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;