1 Chronicles 11:11–31

¹¹And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; ^gJashobeam, ^||an Hachmonite, ^hthe chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time. ¹²And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties. ^13*He was with David at ^||Pas-dammim, ⁱand there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. ¹⁴And ⁱthey ^||set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the Lord saved them by a great ^||deliverance. ¹⁵Now ^||three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped ^jin the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁶And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines’ ^kgarrison was then at Beth-lehem. ¹⁷And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that is at the gate! ¹⁸And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord, ¹⁹And said, My God 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 the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest. ²⁰And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of ^lthe three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three. ²¹Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three. ²²Benaiah 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. ²³And he slew an Egyptian, ^†a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear ^mlike 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. ²⁴These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among ^lthe three mighties. ²⁵Behold, ⁿhe was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

²⁶Also ^othe valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, ^27||Shammoth the ^||Harorite, Helez ^pthe ^||Pelonite, ²⁸Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer ^qthe Antothite, ^29r||Sibbecai the Hushathite, ^||Ilai the Ahohite, ³⁰Maharai the Netophathite, ^||Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, ³¹Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,