2 Samuel 23:23

Modern English Version

He was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. So David set him over his bodyguard.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:23

Now Joab was over the entire army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites.

2 Samuel 23:22

These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and won for himself a name alongside the three.

2 Samuel 23:24

Among the thirty were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

2 Samuel 8:8

From Betah and Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took great quantities of bronze.

1 Chronicles 27:6

Benaiah himself was the mighty man of the thirty who led the thirty: Ammizabad his son led his division.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

And if someone might overpower another, two people can withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 Samuel 22:14

Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who is as faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, chief of your bodyguard, and is honored in your house?