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23 He also killed a soldier[a] from Egypt of enormous height—five cubits[b] tall. The Egyptian carried a spear comparable in size to a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah attacked him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear. 24 Benaiah did things like this and gained a reputation comparable to the Three Warriors. 25 He was well known among the platoons, but he didn’t measure up to[c] the Three Warriors. David placed him in charge of his security detail.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 11:23 Lit. man
  2. 1 Chronicles 11:23 I.e. about seven and a half feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  3. 1 Chronicles 11:25 Or never attained the stature of