This document is about Benaiah (son_of_Jehoiada). For other homonyms, please refer to the Benaiah document. He was the son of Jehoiada (High Priest during David's time) and a famous general during the time of David.
2 Samuel 8:18Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were chief ministers.
2 Samuel 23:20He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.2 Samuel 23:21Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.2 Samuel 23:22He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three. David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 11:22He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.1 Chronicles 11:23Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men.1 Chronicles 11:24Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 27:5This is that Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.1 Chronicles 27:6The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
다윗이 늙어 죽음이 가까웠을 때, 그 아들 아도니야가 반란을 일으켰을때, 솔로몬의 옆을 지키며 반란에 합류하지 않았다.
1 Kings 1:7But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.1 Kings 1:8Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;1 Kings 1:9but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.1 Kings 1:10Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
이후 솔로몬의 명을 받들어 아도니야와 요압을 죽이고 군대 사령관이 되었다.
1 Kings 2:25To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
1 Kings 2:31Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.1 Kings 2:32So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”1 Kings 2:33Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.1 Kings 2:34The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.1 Kings 2:35The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.
이후, 솔로몬의 명령에 따라 시므이역시 죽인다.
1 Kings 2:36For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”1 Kings 2:37Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.1 Kings 2:38At the end of three years, two of Shimei)’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath). They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”1 Kings 2:39Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath) to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.1 Kings 2:40Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.1 Kings 2:41The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’1 Kings 2:42Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”1 Kings 2:43The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.1 Kings 2:44But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”1 Kings 2:45So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.1 Kings 2:46So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.