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BENAIAH (‘Jah hath built’).—1. A brave soldier from Kabzeel in Judah (2Sa_23:20 ff.), captain of David’s bodyguard (2Sa_8:18; 2Sa_20:23). He became a partisan of Solomon’s and carried’ the mighty men,’ ‘the Cherethites and Pelethites,’ with him (1Ki_1:7-8; 1Ki_1:38). He played an important role in the young king’s coronation (1Ki_1:38; 1Ki_1:44), and was subsequently ordered to dispatch Joab, whose place as commander-in-chief he then filled (1Ki_2:28-35). 2. One of the thirty who formed the second class of David’s heroes (2Sa_23:22). He came from Pirathon in Mt. Ephraim (2Sa_23:30, cf. Jdg_12:15). 1Ch_27:14 assigns to him the command of the course for the eleventh month, with twenty-four thousand Ephraimites under him. 3. Some ten obscure persons of this name appear in 1Ch_4:36; 1Ch_15:18; 1Ch_15:20; 1Ch_15:24; 1Ch_16:5-6, 2Ch_20:14; 2Ch_31:13, Ezr_10:25; Ezr_10:30; Ezr_10:35; Ezr_10:43, Eze_11:1; Eze_11:13.
J. Taylor.