1 Chronicles 11:25

he was honourable among the thirty R.V. (cp. 1 Chronicles 11:21), he was more honourable than the thirty. The verse probably comes from some poem written in praise of Benaiah. Cp. 1 Chronicles 27:6.

but attained not to thefirst three Cp. note on 1 Chronicles 11:21.

guard The same Heb. word, mishma-ath, is translated "council" in 1 Samuel 22:14. The literal meaning of the word is "obedience"; it seems both here and in Sam. (l.c.) to designate those who executed the king's commands, i.e. his ministers. (Minister= "servant".)