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## 1 Chronicles 11:23 in Context (Verses 20–26 KJV)
 
 [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,
 
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