Discovery Box2 Samuel 23:17 
Context23:17 and said, “O Lord, I will not do this! 1 It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” 2 So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors. 3
2 Samuel 23:20
Context23:20 Benaiah son of Jehoida was a brave warrior 4 from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. 5 He also went down and killed a lion in a cistern on a snowy day.
1 tn Heb “Far be it to me, O
2 tn Heb “[Is it not] the blood of the men who were going with their lives?”
3 tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”
4 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
5 tc Heb “the two of Ariel, Moab.” The precise meaning of אריאל is uncertain; some read “warrior.” The present translation assumes that the word is a proper name and that בני, “sons of,” has accidentally dropped from the text by homoioarcton (note the preceding שׁני).
