“Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.”
1 Chronicles 11:25 (WEB)
Context Reading
23He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubitshigh. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. 24Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things and had a name among the three mighty men. 25Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard. 26The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 27Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,