2 Samuel 23:23 - The Scriptures 2009

²³ He was more esteemed than the thirty, but he did not come to the first three. And Dawiḏ set him over his guard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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 Yo’aḇ was over all the army of Yisra’ĕl, and Benayah son of Yehoyaḏa was over the Kerĕthites and the Pelĕthites,

2 Samuel 23:22

This is what Benayahu son of Yehoyaḏa did, and had a name among three mighty men.

2 Samuel 23:24

Asah’ĕl the brother of Yo’aḇ was one of the thirty; Elḥanan son of Doḏo of Bĕyth Leḥem,

2 Samuel 8:8

And from Betaḥ and from Bĕrothai, cities of Haḏaḏezer, Sovereign Dawiḏ took very much bronze.

1 Chronicles 27:6

This was the Benayahu who was mighty among the thirty, and was over the thirty, and in his division was Ammizaḇaḏ his son.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

Although one might be overpowered, two withstand him. And a threefold cord is not readily broken.

1 Samuel 22:14

And Aḥimeleḵ answered the sovereign and said, “And who among all your servants is so trustworthy as Dawiḏ, who is the sovereign’s son-in-law, and has turned aside to your counsel, and is esteemed in your house?