1 Chronicles 11:12-29

12Next in rank to him was Eleazar, another one of the three fighting men. He was the son of Dodo and grandson of Aho.

13Eleazar was with David at Pas Dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. There was a field of ripe barley. When the troops fled from the Philistines,

14they stood in the middle of the field and defended it by killing Philistines. So the Lord saved ⌞them⌟ with an impressive victory.

15Once three of the thirty leading men went down to David’s rock at the cave of Adullam when the army of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.

16While David was in the fortified camp, Philistine troops were in Bethlehem.

17David was thirsty and said, “I wish I could have a drink of water from the cistern at the city gate of Bethlehem.”

18So the three burst into the Philistine camp and drew water from the cistern. They brought it to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out ⌞as an offering⌟ to the Lord

19and said, “It’s unthinkable that I would do this, God. Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives? They had to risk their lives to get this water.” So he refused to drink it. These are the things which the three fighting men did.

20Joab’s brother Abishai was the leader of the thirty. He used his spear to kill 300 men, but he was not one of the three,

21although he was honored more than they were. So he became their captain but didn’t become a member of the three.

22Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, was from Kabzeel and was a brave man who did many things. He killed two distinguished soldiers from Moab. He also went into a cistern and killed a lion on the day it snowed.

23He killed an eight-foot-tall Egyptian. The Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand. But Benaiah went to him with a club, grabbed the spear away from him, and killed him with it.

24These are the things that Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, did. He was as famous as the three fighting men.

25He was honored more than the thirty, but he was not a member of the three. David put him in charge of his bodyguards.

26The distinguished fighting men were Joab’s brother Asahel, Elhanan (son of Dodo) from Bethlehem,

27Shammoth from Harod, Helez the Pelonite,

28Ira (son of Ikkesh) from Tekoa, Abiezer from Anathoth,

29Sibbecai (son of Hushai), Ilai (descendant of Ahohi),