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Ammizabad - Son of
Benaiah, chief captain in David's army
Ammizabad - People of the giver, the son of
Benaiah, who was the third and chief captain of the host under David (
1 Chronicles 27:6 )
Ammiz'Abad - God ), the son of
Benaiah, who commanded the third division of David's army
Jeho-i'Ada -
Father of
Benaiah, David's well-known warrior. ) ...
According to (
1 Chronicles 27:34 ) son of
Benaiah; but in all probability
Benaiah the sons of Jehoiada is meant
Aaronites - Jehoiada, the father of
Benaiah, led 3,700 Aaronites as "fighting men" to the support of David at Hebron (
1 Chronicles 12:27 )
Kab'ze-el - (gathered by God ), one of the "cities" of the tribe of Judah, (
Joshua 15:21 ) the native place of the great hero
Benaiah ben-Jehoiada
Kabzeel - Called Jekabzeel when rebuilt after the captivity,
Nehemiah 11:25, a city of the tribe of Judah, situated farthest to the south,
Joshua 15:21; was the birthplace of
Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada
Pelatiah - One seen in a vision by Ezekiel, described as son of
Benaiah, and who devised mischief and gave wicked counsel in the city, He died when Ezekiel prophesied
Jehoiada - The father of
Benaiah, which see. By a copyist's error,
Benaiah is said to have been the father of Jehoiada instead of the son
Jehoiada - Father of
Benaiah one of David's officers. Son of
Benaiah and one of David's counsellors
Executioner - In Solomon's day
Benaiah the chief of the army was called to fulfil this office,
1 Kings 2:25,34,46 , though doubtless the 'chief ' had others under him that actually carried the king's word into execution, unless the persons were of high rank
Cherethites - They were such good soldiers that David, upon conquering the Philistines, used them to form his personal bodyguard, under the command of the tough
Benaiah (
2 Samuel 8:18;
2 Samuel 20:23)
Joab - He was afterwards slain by
Benaiah, by the command of Solomon, in accordance with his father's injunction (
2 Samuel 3:29 ; 20:5-13 ), at the altar to which he had fled for refuge.
Benaiah succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the army
a'Riel - ) The word occurs also in reference to two Moabites slain by
Benaiah
Adonijah - But God had showed David that Solomon was to succeed him (
1 Chronicles 28:5), and Solomon had the support of the commander of the royal bodyguard
Benaiah, the other leading priest Zadok, and the prophet Nathan (
1 Kings 1:8)
Benaiah -
Benaiah (‘Jah hath built’)
Kabzeel - (See
Benaiah was of Kabzeel (
2 Samuel 23:20;
1 Chronicles 11:22).
Benaiah's "slaying two lion-like men of Moab" accords with the position of Kadesh toward Moab; also "the lion in a pit on a snowy day" accords with there being dense jungle, the haunt of wild beasts, in the neighbourhood
Hunting - Deeds of prowess in the slaughter of such animals by Samson in self-defence (
Judges 14:6 ), David the shepherd to rescue his charges (
1 Samuel 17:34 ), and
Benaiah (
2 Samuel 23:20 ) gained for these men abiding fame. ) would read of
Benaiah: ‘He used to go down and smite the lions in the pit on snowy days,’ when he could track them easily
Adonijah - ...
Nathan the prophet, Zadok (Eleazar's descendant, and so of the older line of priesthood),
Benaiah son of Jehoiada, captain of the king's guard, Shimei and Rei (or Shimma, Raddai), David's own brothers, supported Solomon. )
Benaiah dispatched him
Joab - Although Joab fled to the tabernacle for sanctuary, Solomon ordered
Benaiah to kill Joab (
1 Kings 2:1 )
Adoni'Jah - (
1 Kings 1:3 ) This was regarded as equivalent to a fresh attempt on the throne
; and therefore Solomon ordered him to be put to death by
Benaiah
jo'ab - Joab fled to the shelter of the altar at Gibeon, and was here slain by
Benaiah
Abner - This last was accomplished, according to David's dying injunction, by the direction of King Solomon, and Joab was slain by
Benaiah
Measure - A “man of measure” is one of great “stature or size”: “And he
slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits
high …” (
Adonijah - Even so it is very doubtful whether Bathsheba would have succeeded in her plan had it not been that she was enabled to gain
Benaiah to her side; as captain of the king’s body-guard (the Cherethites and Pelethites), Beuaiah was the man upon whom the issue really depended, for he commanded the only armed troops that were immediately available. Such a desire was naturally interpreted by Solomon as an intention of seeking the kingdom (
1 Kings 2:22 ), and self-preservation compelled him to decree Adonijah’s death, a sentence which was carried out by
Benaiah (
1 Kings 2:25 )
Nathan - Nathan, along with Zadok, the priest,
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Shimei, Rei, and David's mighty men, opposed Adonijah
Shimei, Shimeites - ’ After this Shimei is not permitted to go beyond the walls of Jerusalem on pain of death; but presuming three years later to go to Gath in quest of fugitive slaves, he is executed by
Benaiah at the command of the king (
1Ki 2:8 ff
Amen - ...
When David declared that Solomon should be his successor,
Benaiah said "Amen: the Lord God of my lord the king say so too
Lion -
Benaiah slew one in a pit or cistern, in which it had taken refuge in a snowstorm (
2 Samuel 23:20)
Gibeon - To the altar of burnt-offering which was at Gibeon, Joab (
1 Kings 2:28-34 ), who had taken the side of Adonijah, fled for sanctuary in the beginning of Solomon's reign, and was there also slain by the hand of
Benaiah
Believe - It functions as an assertion of a person’s agreement with the intent of a speech just delivered: “And
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the Lord God of my lord the king say so too. ” However, the context shows that
Benaiah meant to give more than just verbal assent; his 'âmên committed him to carry out the wishes of King David
Shimei - His breach of his own oath brought on him the king's threatened penalty; he was slain by
Benaiah
Jehoiada - Father of
Benaiah.
Benaiah's son, named after his grandfather; succeeded to Ahithophel as one of David's chief counselors (
1 Chronicles 27:34)
Amen - In the mouth of
Benaiah (
1 Kings 1:36) and Jeremiah (
Jeremiah 28:6) it appears as first word in the sentence, as a strong form of assent to a previous statement
da'Vid - (
Genesis 15:18-21 ) During the succeeding ten years the nations bordering on his kingdom caused David more or less trouble, but during this time he reduced to a state of permanent subjection the Philistines on the west, (
2 Samuel 8:1 ) the Moabites on the east, (
2 Samuel 8:2 ) by the exploits of
Benaiah, (
2 Samuel 23:20 ) the Syrians on the northeast as far as the Euphrates, (
2 Samuel 8:3 ) the Edomites, (
2 Samuel 8:14 ) on the south; and finally the Ammonites, who had broken their ancient alliance, and made one grand resistance to the advance of his empire
Moab - Probably some act of perfidy of Moab, as the murder or treacherous delivering of his parents to Saul, caused David 20 years afterward to slay two thirds of the people, and make bondmen and tributaries of the rest (
2 Samuel 8:2; in this war
Benaiah slew two lion-like men,
2 Samuel 23:20; compare also
Psalms 60:8, "Moab is my washpot"; yet among David's heroes was "Ithmah the Moabite,"
1 Chronicles 11:22;
Jeremiah 25:9-210), fulfilling Balaam's prophecy,
Numbers 24:17;
Numbers 24:19; "out of Jacob shall come he that shall destroy him that remaineth of Ar" (Hebrew, namely, of Moab)
Hosanna - Hosanna was, says Alford (on
Matthew 21:9), ‘originally a formula of supplication, but
conventionally
of gratulation, so that it is followed by a dative, and by “in the highest,”—meaning “may it also be ratified in heaven,”—and he cites
1 Kings 1:36, where
Benaiah answers David, saying, ‘Amen: the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so too
Aaron - Aaron's descendants, to the number of 3,700 fighting men, with Jehoiada, father of
Benaiah, their head, joined David at Hebron (
1 Chronicles 12:27;
1 Chronicles 27:17); subsequently, Zadok was their chief, "a young man mighty of valor
Joab - That letter was still deep down in Joab's breast-pocket when
Benaiah at David's demand fell upon him and slew him in spite of the horns of the altar
Solomon - ) By the interposition of Nathan the prophet, Zadok the priest,
Benaiah, Shimei, and Rei, David's mighty men, Solomon was at David's command taken on the king's own mule to Gihon, anointed, and proclaimed king