19Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the first three.


In Context

16 The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

17 He said, |Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn't it the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?| Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

18 Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

19 Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the first three.

20 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

2 Samuel 23:19 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not held in greater honor than the Three? He became their commander, even though he was not included among them.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:19And the noblest of three, and was their chief, but to the three first he attained not.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the first three.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not most honourable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: yet he attained not to the first three.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:19Of the three is he not the honoured? and he becometh their head; and unto the first three he hath not come.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:19Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: however, he attained not to the first three.