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And he said, "Far be it from me, O my God, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." Therefore he would not drink it. These things were done by the three mighty men.
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Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of another three. He had lifted up his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name among these three.
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Of the three he was more honored than the other two men. Therefore he became their captain. However he did not attain to the first three.
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Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion-like heroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
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And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. In the Egyptian's hand there was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
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These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and won a name among three mighty men.
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Indeed he was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him over his guard.
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Also the mighty warriors were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
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Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
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Sibbechai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,