Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 23:23

2 Samuel chapter 23 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

Context

v.22These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.

v.23This passage

v.24Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 22:14

    Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?

  • 1 Chronicles 27:6

    This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his course was Ammizabad his son.

  • 2 Samuel 8:8

    And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

  • 2 Samuel 20:23

    Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;