2 Samuel 23:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He was more renowned than the Thirty, but he attained not to the [first] Three. David set him over his guard or council.

American Standard Version (1901)

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

Common English Bible

He was famous among the Thirty, but he didn’t become one of the Three. David placed him in command of his own bodyguard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he was renowned among the three robust men, who were the most noble among the thirty. Yet truly, he did not attain to the three, until David made him his secret advisor.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the most honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first three. And David made him of his privy council.

2 Samuel 23:23 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:23

Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

2 Samuel 23:22

These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.

2 Samuel 23:24

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem;

2 Samuel 8:8

And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

1 Chronicles 27:6

This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his course was Ammizabad his son.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 Samuel 22:14

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, which is the king's son in law, and is taken into thy council, and is honourable in thine house?