1 Chronicles 11:19-21
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
19 and said, “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
20 Now Abi′shai, the brother of Jo′ab, was chief of the thirty.[a] And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, and won a name beside the three. 21 He was the most renowned[b] of the thirty,[c] and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.
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- 1 Chronicles 11:20 Syr: Heb three
- 1 Chronicles 11:21 Compare 2 Sam 23.19: Heb more renowned among the two
- 1 Chronicles 11:21 Syr: Heb three
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