2 Samuel 23:19
What does 2 Samuel 23:19 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 23:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Of the three is he not the honoured? and he becometh their head; and unto the <FI>first<Fi> three he hath not come.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the noblest of three, and was their chief, but to the three first he attained not.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the [first] three.
Context
v.18And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.
v.19This passage
v.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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 13:23
And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- 2 Samuel 23:9
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
- Matthew 13:8
and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- 2 Samuel 23:16
And the three mighty men 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 he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah.
- 2 Samuel 23:13
And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Corinthians 15:41
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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