1 Chronicles 11:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ He was the most renowned of the Thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the Three.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Of the Three [in the second rank] he was more renowned than the two, and became their captain; however, he attained not to the first three.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

Common English Bible

²¹ He was the most famous of the Thirty. He became their commander, but he wasn’t among the Three.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ and he was famous among the second three and their leader. Yet truly, he did not reach as far as the first three.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And illustrious among the second three, and their captain. But yet he attained not to the first three.

1 Chronicles 11:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:18

Now Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty. With his spear he fought against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the Three.

1 Chronicles 11:20

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty. With his spear he fought against three hundred and killed them and won a name beside the Three.

1 Chronicles 11:22

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

1 Chronicles 12:21

They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all warriors and commanders in the army.

Matthew 13:8

Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

1 Corinthians 15:41

There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.