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1 Chronicles 11:25

in 1 Chronicles 11

He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

KJV

Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

He struck down two champions of Moab

on 1 Chronicles 11:22-25

Benaiah struck down two champions of Moab, killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day, and killed an Egyptian. David appointed him over his guard before he took Joab's post under Solomon. The Targum reads him as valiant and fearing sin, a righteous man of the second sanctuary.

This site's exposition

David appointed him over his

The guard was the royal bodyguard, the Cherethites and Pelethites whom Benaiah commands in 1 Chronicles 18:17. Those names are usually taken as Cretans and Philistines, foreign soldiers bound to the king. 2 Samuel 23:23 gives the same appointment.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the L ORD ; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the L ORD by Samuel. 4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

David set him over his guard - “Made him chief ruler over his disciples.” - T. For other particulars, see the notes on the parallel places, where the subject is farther considered.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • מִן־more than

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַשְּׁלוֹשִׁ֗יםthe thirty

    hasheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • הִנּ֤וֹthere he

    hinoH2005 →

  • נִכְבָּד֙[was] honored

    nikhbadH3513 →113 times

  • ה֔וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַשְּׁלוֹשָׁ֖הthe three

    hasheloshahH7969 →432 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • בָ֑אhe came

    va'H935 →2568 times

  • וַיְשִׂימֵ֥הוּand he appointed him

    vaysimehuH7760 →584 times

  • דָוִ֖ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ׃ סbodyguard his

    mishma'toH4928 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 20:23

    Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:16–18

      Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    • 1 Chronicles 18:15–17

      Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    • 1 Kings 4:3–6

      Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Chronicles 18:17; Berean Standard Bible, 2 Samuel 23:23; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.