1 Chronicles 11:19-20

11:19 and said, “God forbid that I should do this! ¹  Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” ²  Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. ³ 

11:20 Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three ⁴  elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear ⁵  and gained fame along with the three elite warriors. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”

² tn Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.

³ tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”

⁴ tc The Syriac reads “thirty” here and at the beginning of v. 21; this reading is followed by some English translations (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

⁵ tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against three hundred, [who were] slain.”

⁶ tn Heb “and to him [reading with the Qere] there was a name among the three.”