19. Was he not most honourable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
20. And 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:
21. And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but 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.
22. These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
23. He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
24. Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;
25. Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite;
26. Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite;
27. Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite;
28. Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite;