22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada(A) was the son of a brave man[a] from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. Benaiah killed two sons of Ariel of Moab,[b] and he went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. 23 He also killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet tall.[c] Even though the Egyptian had a spear in his hand like a weaver’s beam,(B) Benaiah went down to him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and then killed him with his own spear. 24 These were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who had a reputation among the three warriors.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:22 Or was a valiant man
  2. 11:22 Or He killed two Moabite warriors
  3. 11:23 Lit who measured five cubits

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