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2 Samuel 23:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. "
2 Samuel 23:22
Verse in Context
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20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in a time of snow.
21 He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.
23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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2 Samuel 23:1
"Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:"
2 Samuel 23:2
"“The LORD’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue."
2 Samuel 23:3
"The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,"
2 Samuel 23:4
"shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’"
2 Samuel 23:5
"Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?"
2 Samuel 23:6
"But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand."
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