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2 Sam. 23:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, λwho had done many acts, he slew two νlionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

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great of acts.

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lions of God.

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Benaiah,

Jehoiada,

Kabzeel,

Lion,

Man,

Moab; Moabites,

Pit,

Snow,

Son

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Benaiah.

2 Sam. 8:18• ¹⁸and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers. (2 Sam. 8:18)

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2 Sam. 20:23• ²³And Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites; (2 Sam. 20:23)

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1 Kings 1:8,26,38• ⁸But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men whom David had, were not with Adonijah.
²⁶But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, he has not invited.
³⁸And Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon. (1 Kings 1:8,26,38)

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1 Kings 2:29‑35,46• ²⁹And it was told king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Jehovah; and behold, he is by the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.
³⁰And Benaiah came to the tent of Jehovah and said to him, Thus saith the king: Come forth. And he said, No; for I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
³¹And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him; and take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.
³²And Jehovah shall requite the blood which he shed upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, without my father David's knowledge: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
³³And their blood shall be requited upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever; but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Jehovah.
³⁴And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him, and put him to death; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
³⁵And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his stead over the host; and Zadok the priest the king put in the stead of Abiathar.
⁴⁶And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; who went out and fell upon him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. (1 Kings 2:29‑35,46)

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1 Chron. 18:17• ¹⁷and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were the first at the king's hand. (1 Chron. 18:17)

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1 Chron. 27:5‑6• ⁵The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah (the son of Jehoiada, a principal officer): he was head; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
⁶This Benaiah was a mighty man among the thirty, and above the thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad his son. (1 Chron. 27:5‑6)

Kabzeel.

Josh. 15:21• ²¹The cities at the extremity of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the south, were: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, (Josh. 15:21)

who had done many acts.

Heb. great of acts.

he slew.

Ex. 15:15• ¹⁵Then the princes of Edom were amazed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them; All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. (Ex. 15:15)

lion-like men.

Heb. lions of God.

2 Sam. 1:23• ²³Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their lives, Even in their death were not divided; They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. (2 Sam. 1:23)

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1 Chron. 11:22‑24• ²²Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lions of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
²³He also smote the Egyptian, a man of stature, five cubits high: and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
²⁴These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he had a name among the three mighty men. (1 Chron. 11:22‑24)

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1 Chron. 12:8• ⁸And of the Gadites, there separated themselves to David in the stronghold in the wilderness mighty men of valour, men fit for the service of war, armed with shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as the gazelles upon the mountains: (1 Chron. 12:8)

slew a lion.

Judg. 14:5‑6• ⁵And Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnathah; and they came to the vineyards of Timnathah. And behold, a young lion roared against him;
⁶and the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he rent it as one rends a kid, and nothing was in his hand. And he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. (Judg. 14:5‑6)

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1 Sam. 17:34‑37• ³⁴And David said to Saul, Thy servant fed his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and also a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock.
³⁵And I went after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I seized him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
³⁶Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
³⁷And David said, Jehovah who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and Jehovah be with thee. (1 Sam. 17:34‑37)

• He fought the enemies from without, Moab and Egypt. He killed two Moabite heroes. ("Two Ariels" or lions of God, heroes.) Like David he fought a lion all by himself; he killed the Egyptian just as David had struck down Goliath, and just as David had taken the giant's sword to decapitate him, so Benaiah put the Egyptian to death with his own spear. Benaiah walks faithfully in his master's steps and his great affection for David leads him to reproduce his model's traits. (“David's Mighty Men: 2 Samuel 23:8-39” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lionsa of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.

JND Translation Notes

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Heb. Ariel, strictly, "lion of God (El)," i.e. "great heroes"; and so 1 Chron. 11.22.