Now Joab {was} over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada {was} over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who {is so} faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

This {is that} Benaiah, {who was} mighty {among} the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course {was} Ammizabad his son.

And after him {was} Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who {was one} of the three mighties.

Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed {them} to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.