2 Samuel 23:19

A Conservative Version

Was he not most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he did not attain to the [first] three.

Cross References

Matthew 13:23

But that which was sown upon the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and is productive, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Matthew 13:8

But others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

1 Corinthians 15:41

another glory is of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

1 Chronicles 11:25

Behold, he was more famous than the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.

2 Samuel 23:16

And the three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it, but poured it out to LORD.

2 Samuel 23:13

And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 23:9

And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

2 Samuel 23:18

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

2 Samuel 23:20

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.