2Sam 23:20 (NASU) Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
21 He killed an Egyptian, an impressive man. Now the Egyptian [had] a spear in his hand, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
22 These [things] Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three mighty men.
23 He was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his guard.
1Kin 1:5 (NASU) Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen with fifty men to run before him.
6 His father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" And he was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom.
7 He had conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and following Adonijah they helped him.
8 But 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.
1Kin 1:32 (NASU) Then King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." And they came into the king's presence.
33 The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
34 "Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, `[Long] live King Solomon!'
35 "Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne and be king in my place; for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah."
36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! Thus may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say.
37 "As the Lord has been with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David!"
38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1Kin 2:35 (KJS) And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
1Kin 2:35 Cmty-PersonalGills Commentary:
Ver. 35. "And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over"
"the host", &c.] Advanced him from being captain of his bodyguards to be
general of the army:
BDB/Thayers # 1141 - 01141 Bnayah ben-aw-yaw'} or (prolonged) Bnayahuw ben-aw-yaw'-hoo}from 01129 and 03050;; n pr m
AV - Benaiah 42; 42
Benaiah = "Jehovah has built" or "Yahweh has built up"
1) one of David's mighty warriors, son of Jehoiada the chief priest, a
Levite, set by David over his bodyguard, later having remained faithful
to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, was raised into the
place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the army
2) the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty warriors,
and the captain of the eleventh monthly course