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18 Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was chief of the [a]thirty. He wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them, and gained a reputation beside the three. 19 He was the most honored of the thirty, so he became their commander; however, he did not attain to the [greatness of the] three.

20 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many notable acts, killed two [famous] warriors of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:18 So two Hebrew mss and Syriac; MT three.

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