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Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

2 Samuel 23:19 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૨૩:૧૯
શું તે ત્રણેમાં સૌથી શ્રેષ્ઠ ન હતો? એ કારણથી તેને તેઓનો સેનાપતિ બનાવવામાં આવ્યો હતો. તો પણ, તે પેલા ત્રણ સૈનિકોની સમાનતા કરી શકે તેવો ન હતો.
हिन्दी2 शमूएल २३:१९
क्या वह तीनों से अधिक प्रतिष्ठित न था? और इसी से वह उनका प्रधान हो गया; परन्तु मुख्य तीनों के पद को न पहुँचा।

In context

17He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

18Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

19Wasn’t he most honorable of the three? Therefore he was made their captain. However he wasn’t included as one of the three.

20Benaiah 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 in a time of snow.

21He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.

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