²⁰ As for ^[a]Abshai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the ^[b]thirty, and he wielded his spear against three hundred ^[c]and killed them; and he had a name ^[d]as well as the ^[e]thirty. ²¹ Of the three in the second rank he was the most honored, and he became their commander; however, he did not attain the reputation of the first three.

^22 (A)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a warrior of Kabzeel, mighty in deeds, struck and killed the ^[f]two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and struck and killed a lion inside a pit on a snowy day.