1 Chronicles 11:11–31

¹¹And this is an account of the mighty ones whom David hath: Jashobeam son of a Hachmonite is head of the thirty; he is lifting up his spear against three hundred—wounded, at one time. ¹²And after him is Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite, he is among the three mighty; ¹³he hath been with David in Pas-Dammim, and the Philistines have been gathered there to battle, and a portion of the field is full of barley, and the people have fled from the face of the Philistines, ¹⁴and they station themselves in the midst of the portion, and deliver it, and smite the Philistines, and Jehovah saveth—a great salvation. ¹⁵And three of the thirty heads go down on the rock unto David, unto the cave of Adullam, and the host of the Philistines is encamping in the valley of Rephaim, ¹⁶and David is then in the fortress, and the station of the Philistines is then in Beth-Lehem, ¹⁷and David longeth, and saith, ‘Who doth give me to drink water from the well of Beth-Lehem, that is at the gate!’ ¹⁸And the three break through the camp of the Philistines, and draw water from the well of Beth-Lehem, that is at the gate, and bear and bring in unto David, and David hath not been willing to drink it, and poureth it out to Jehovah, ¹⁹and saith, ‘Far be it from me, by my God, to do this; the blood of these men do I drink with their lives? for with their lives they have brought it;’ and he was not willing to drink it; these things did the three mighty ones. ²⁰And Abishai brother of Joab, he hath been head of the three: and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred—wounded, and hath a name among three. ²¹Of the three by the two he is honoured, and becometh their head; and unto the first three he hath not come. ²²Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a man of valour, of great deeds, from Kabzeel: he hath smitten the two lion-like Moabites, and he hath gone down and smitten the lion in the midst of the pit, in the day of snow. ²³And he hath smitten the man, the Egyptian—a man of measure, five by the cubit—and in the hand of the Egyptian is a spear like a beam of weavers, and he goeth down unto him with a rod, and taketh violently away the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slayeth him with his own spear. ²⁴These things hath Benaiah son of Jehoiada done, and hath a name among the three mighty ones. ²⁵Of the thirty, lo, he is honoured, and unto the first three he hath not come, and David setteth him over his guard. ²⁶And the mighty ones of the forces are Asahel brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Beth-Lehem, ²⁷Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, ²⁸Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-Ezer the Annethothite, ²⁹Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, ³⁰Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, ³¹Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,