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2 Samuel 23:17-19
English Standard Version
2 Samuel 23:17-19
English Standard Version
17 and said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink (A)the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
18 Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty.[a] And he wielded his spear against three hundred men[b] and killed them and won a name beside the three. 19 He was the most renowned of the thirty[c] and became their commander, but he did not attain to (B)the three.
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- 2 Samuel 23:18 Two Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts three
- 2 Samuel 23:18 Or slain ones
- 2 Samuel 23:19 Compare 1 Chronicles 11:21; Hebrew Was he the most renowned of the three?
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