²² Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who ^[a]had done many deeds. ^(A)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.

^18 (A)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the ^(B)Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were ^[a]chief ministers.

²¹ The cities at the limits of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the South, were Kabzeel, ^(A)Eder, Jagur,

⁵ The third captain of the army for the third month was ^(A)Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, who was chief; in his division were twenty-four thousand. ⁶ This was the Benaiah who was ^(B)mighty among the thirty, and was over the thirty; in his division was Ammizabad his son.

⁸ Some Gadites ^[a]joined David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for battle, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were ^(A)as swift as gazelles on the mountains: