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2 Samuel 23:22

Old Testament Historical ASV (1901)

What does 2 Samuel 23:22 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
2 Samuel 23:22 — American Standard Version

Context — 2 Samuel 23

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
19Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.
20And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
21And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: 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 slew him with his own spear.
22These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
23He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
24Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
25Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, etc.] Slew a lion, and two lion-like men of Moab, and an Egyptian of a gigantic stature, (<102320>2 Samuel 23:20,21): and had the name among three mighty men; of which he was one, and Abishai another, the third Asahel, one of the thirty; or was over them, (<102324>2 Samuel 23:24), since thirty are reckoned without him. Abarbinel thinks that the third was Adina, the son of Shiza, the Reubenite, (<131142>1 Chronicles 11:42); since thirty were with him, and he at the head of them.”
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