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Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.

1 Chronicles 11:21 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી1 કાળવૃતાંત ૧૧:૨૧
ત્રીસમાં તે વધારે નામાંકિત હતો અને તે તેઓનો ઉપરી થયો. જો કે તે પેલા ત્રણની બરાબરી કરી શક્યો નહિ.
हिन्दी1 इतिहास ११:२१
दूसरी श्रेणी के तीनों में वह अधिक प्रतिष्ठित था, और उनका प्रधान हो गया, परन्तु मुख्य तीनों के पद को न पहुँचा

In context

19and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

20Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

21Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain; however he wasn’t included in the three.

22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

23He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

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