1 Chronicles 11:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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.