--- title: "1 Chronicles 11:15-25 KJV - \"Now three of the thirty captains went...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encampe\" — Read 1 Chronicles 11:15-25 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25" --- [ Read](/kjv/1-chronicles/11)[ Commentary](/study/1-chronicles/11)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/1-chronicles/11) Audio ## 1 Chronicles 11:15-25 in Context (Verses 12–28 KJV) [12 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/12) And after him *was* Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who *was one* of the three mighties. [13 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/13) He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.* [14 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/14) And they set themselves in the midst of *that* parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved *them* by a great deliverance.** [15 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15) ¶ Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.* [16 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/16) And David *was* then in the hold, and the Philistines’ garrison *was* then at Beth-lehem. [17 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/17) And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that *is* at the gate! [18 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/18) And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that *was* by the gate, and took *it*, and brought *it* to David: but David would not drink *of* it, but poured it out to the LORD, [19 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/19) And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with *the jeopardy of* their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.* [20 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/20) ¶ And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew *them*, and had a name among the three. [21 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/21) Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the *first* three. [22 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/22) Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.* [23 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/23) And he slew an Egyptian, a man of *great* stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand *was* a spear like a weaver’s beam; and 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.* [24 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/24) These *things* did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties. [25 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/25) Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the *first* three: and David set him over his guard. [26 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/26) ¶ Also the valiant men of the armies *were*, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, [27 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/27) Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,*** [28 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/11/28) Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite, [1 Chronicles 10](/kjv/1-chronicles/10) [1 Chronicles 12](/kjv/1-chronicles/12) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25","name":"1 Chronicles 11:15-25 KJV - \"Now three of the thirty captains went...\" | Real Bible Believers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"\"Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encampe\" — Read 1 Chronicles 11:15-25 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv","name":"KJV Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles","name":"1 Chronicles"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11","name":"11"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/1-chronicles/11/15-25","name":"Verse 15-25"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```