2 Samuel 23:8–23

^8lThese be the names of the mighty men whom David had: ^||The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among ^mthe captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: ^||he lift up his spear against eight hundred, ^†whom he slew at one time. ⁹And after him was ⁿEleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when ^othey defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: ¹⁰He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great ^pvictory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. ¹¹And after him was ^qShammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together ^||into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. ¹²But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great ^pvictory. ¹³And ^||three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto ^rthe cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in ^sthe valley of Rephaim. ¹⁴And David was then in ^tan hold, and ^uthe garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. ¹⁵And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! ¹⁶And the three mighty men 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: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. ¹⁷And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this ^wthe blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. ¹⁸And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, ^†and slew them, and had the name among three. ¹⁹Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the ^xfirst three. ²⁰And ^yBenaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of ^zKabzeel, ^†who had done many acts, he slew two ^†lionlike men of ^aMoab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: ²¹And 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. ²²These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. ²³He was ^||more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the ^bfirst three. And David set him over his ^||guard.