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19 and said, ‘My God forbid that I should do this. Can I drink the blood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.’ Therefore he would not drink it. The three warriors did these things.

20 Now Abishai,[a] the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty.[b] With his spear he fought against three hundred and killed them, and won a name beside the Three. 21 He was the most renowned[c] of the Thirty,[d] and became their commander; but he did not attain to the Three.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:20 Gk Vg Tg Compare 2 Sam 23.18: Heb Abshai
  2. 1 Chronicles 11:20 Syr: Heb Three
  3. 1 Chronicles 11:21 Compare 2 Sam 23.19: Heb more renowned among the two
  4. 1 Chronicles 11:21 Syr: Heb Three

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