2 Samuel 23:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷ and said to the Lord, “I can't drink this water! It's like the blood of these men who risked their lives to get it for me.”

The Three Warriors did these brave deeds.

The Thirty Warriors

(1 Chronicles 11.20-47)

¹⁸ Joab's brother Abishai was the leader of the Thirty Warriors,^[a] and in one battle he killed 300 men with his spear. He was as famous as the Three Warriors ¹⁹ and certainly just as famous as the rest of the Thirty Warriors. He was the commander of the Thirty Warriors, but he still did not become one of the Three Warriors.