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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Benaiah

son of the Lord

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Benaiah

(made by the Lord).

The son of Jehoiada the chief priest, (1 Chronicles 27:5) of the tribe of Levi, though a native of Kabzeel, (2 Samuel 23:20) set by David, (1 Chronicles 11:25) over his body-guard. (2 Samuel 8:18; 20:23; 1 Kings 1:38; 1 Chronicles 18:17) One of the mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:22,23; 1 Chronicles 11:25; 27:6) The exploits which gave him this rank are narrated in (2 Samuel 23:20,21; 1 Chronicles 11:22) He was captain of the host for the third month. (1 Chronicles 27:5) Benaiah remained faithful to Solomon during Adonijah's attempt on the crown, (1 Kings 1:8,10,32,38,44) and was raised unto the place of Joab as commander-in-chief of the whole army. (1 Kings 2:35; 4:4) (B.C. 1005.)
Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite, one of David's thirty mighty men, (2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31) and the captain of the eleventh monthly course. (1 Chronicles 27:14)
A Levite in the time of David, who "played with a psaltry on Alamoth." (1 Chronicles 15:18,20; 16:5)
A priest in the time of David, appointed to blow the trumpet before the ark. (1 Chronicles 15:24; 16:6)
A Levite of the sons of Asaph. (2 Chronicles 20:14)
A Levite in the time of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:13)
One of the "princes" of the families of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:36)
Four laymen in the time of Ezra who had taken strange wives. (Ezra 10:25,30,35,43)
The father of Pelatiah. (Ezekiel 11:1,13)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Benaiah

Son of Jehoiada, and commander of David's bodyguards. Several instances of his rare bravery are recorded, 2 Samuel 8:18 2 Samuel 23:20-23. He adhered to Solomon when some favored the pretensions of Adonijah, slew Joab at the command of Solomon, and was made general of the army in his stead, 1 Kings 1:36 2:29-35.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Built up by Jehovah.

(1.) The son of Jehoiada, chief priest (1 Chronicles 27:5). He was set by David over his body-guard of Cherethites and Pelethites (2 Samuel 8:18; 1 Kings 1:32; 1 Chronicles 18:17). His exploits are enumerated in 2 Samuel 23:20, 21, 22; 1 Chronicles 11:22. He remained faithful to Solomon (1 Kings 1:8, 10, 26), by whom he was raised to the rank of commander-in-chief (1 Kings 2:25, 29, 30, 34, 35; 4:4).

(2.) 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11:31.

(3.) A musical Levite (1 Chronicles 15:18, 20).

(4.) A priest (1 Chronicles 15:24; 16:6).

(5.) The son of Jeiel (2 Chronicles 20:14).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BENAIAH

be-na'-ya, be-ni'-a (benayah, benayahu, "Yahweh has built." Compare HPN, 182, 265, 268):

(1) Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada of Kabzeel (compare Joshua 15:21), was a man of "mighty deeds" and was more honorable than any of the mighty men of David except the three chiefs. Therefore David made him his chief counselor (2 Samuel 23:23 m; month compare 1 Chronicles 27:34 where the order of names seems to be reversed) and set him over the Cherethites (compare Carites, 2 Kings 11:4 and margin) and Pelethites and he was made the 3rd captain of the host and chief over the course of the 3rd (1 Chronicles 27:5 2 Samuel 8:18; 2 Samuel 20:23 1 Chronicles 18:17 2 Samuel 23:20; 2 Samuel 11:22). Being a true friend of David (compare 2 Samuel 15:18) he did not take part in the usurpation of Adonijah (1 Kings 1:8, 10, 26), and was therefore with others chosen by the king to proclaim Solomon king over Israel (1 Kings 1:32) and later by Solomon to execute Adonijah (1 Kings 2:25), Joab (1 Kings 2:29), and Shimei (1 Kings 2:46). In recognition of his services Solomon appointed him over the host in Joab's place (1 Kings 2:35; 1 Kings 4:4).

(2) Benaiah, a Pirathonite (compare Judges 12:13, 15), was one of David's 30 mighty men (2 Samuel 23:30 1 Chronicles 11:31). He was captain over the course of the 11th month numbering 24,000 (1 Chronicles 27:14).

(3) A ruler of the house of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:36).

(4) A Levite of second degree appointed as singer (1 Chronicles 15:18) with "psalteries Set to Alamoth" (1 Chronicles 15:20; 1 Chronicles 16:5).

(5) A priest appointed "to blow the trumpet before the ark of God" (1 Chronicles 15:24; 1 Chronicles 16:6).

(6) The father of Jehoiada (1 Chronicles 27:34), but see (1) above.

(7) An ancestor of Jahaziel of the house of Asaph (2 Chronicles 20:14).

(8) An overseer in the service of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:13).

(9, 10, 11, 12) Four different men of Israel who had taken "strange wives" (Ezra 10:25, 30, 35, 43).

(13) The father of Pelatiah who was seen by Ezekiel in his vision (Ezekiel 11:1, 13).

A. L. Breslich

Strong's Hebrew

1141. Benayahu -- "Yah has built up," the name of several ...
... "Yah has built up," the name of several Israelites. Transliteration: Benayahu or
Benayah Phonetic Spelling: (ben-aw-yaw') Short Definition: Benaiah. ... Benaiah. ...
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Library

How Solomon Became the Ruler of Israel
... But Zadok the priest and Benaiah and Nathan the prophet, as well as Shimei
and Rei and David's famous warriors, were not on his side. ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/how solomon became the ruler.htm

The Horns of the Altar
... Then Solomn sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord and said ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 31 1885/the horns of the altar.htm

David Appointing Solomon
... And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.33. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/david appointing solomon.htm

How Solomon, when He had Received the Kingdom Took Off His
... Abiathar the priest. So he called for Benaiah, the captain of the guards,
and ordered him to slay his brother Adonijah. He also ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 1 how solomon when.htm

That David Made Great Preparations for the House of God; and That ...
... of the army, and Abiathar the high priest; and the only persons that opposed him
were Zadok the high priest, and the prophet Nathan, and Benaiah, who was ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 14 that david made.htm

How the Hebrews were Delivered from a Famine when the Gibeonites ...
... The fifth of these was Benaiah, by lineage a priest; for being challenged by [two]
eminent men in the country of Moab, he overcame them by his valor, Moreover ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 12 how the hebrews.htm

The History of Solomon
... the end of the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah and slew him there, and
after buried him in his house in desert. And after this on ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the history of solomon.htm

There have Come to Me Ransomers from among the Saints, but None ...
... Benaiah in the holy temple slew Jacob, justly as it is written."Because justice
has restrained her sword, henceforth penitents shall rejoice in grace. 13. ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xxxix there have come.htm

Concerning the Wife of Solomon; Concerning his Wisdom and Riches ...
... was Dioclerus; Abinadab, who married Solomon's daughter, had the region of Dora
and the sea-coast under him; the Great Plain was under Benaiah, the son of ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 2 concerning the wife.htm

How David Brought under the Philistines, and the Moabites, and the ...
... friend. He also made Seisan the scribe, and committed the command over the
guards of his body to Benaiah; the son of Jehoiada. His ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 5 how david brought.htm

Thesaurus

Benaiah (44 Occurrences)
... (5.) The son of Jeiel (2 Chronicles 20:14). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BENAIAH. ...
AL Breslich. Multi-Version Concordance Benaiah (44 Occurrences). ...
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Jehoi'ada (50 Occurrences)
... Jehoi'ada (50 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. ...
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Benai'ah (43 Occurrences)
Benai'ah. Benaiah, Benai'ah. Benammi . Multi-Version Concordance
Benai'ah (43 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of ...
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Kerethites (9 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the
Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. (See NIV). ...
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Pelethites (7 Occurrences)
... Pelethites (7 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. ...
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Pelethite (7 Occurrences)
... Pelethite (7 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. ...
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Pirathonite (5 Occurrences)
... (2.) Benaiah the Ephraimite (2 Samuel 23:30), one of David's thirty heroes. Int. ...
2 Samuel 23:30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash. ...
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Cherethites (11 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites
and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. ...
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Cherethite (8 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites
and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. ...
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Zechari'ah (51 Occurrences)
... 15:18 and with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel,
and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah ...
/z/zechari'ah.htm - 20k

Resources

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Concordance

Benaiah (44 Occurrences)

2 Samuel 8:18
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers.
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2 Samuel 20:23
Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 23:20
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
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2 Samuel 23:21
He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: 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.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 23:22
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 23:30
Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
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1 Kings 1:8
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 1:10
but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call.
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1 Kings 1:26
But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 1:32
King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." They came before the king.
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1 Kings 1:36
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.
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1 Kings 1:38
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
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1 Kings 1:44
The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule.
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1 Kings 2:25
King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
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1 Kings 2:29
It was told king Solomon, "Joab has fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and behold, he is by the altar." Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him."
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1 Kings 2:30
Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, "Thus says the king,'Come forth!'" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."
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1 Kings 2:31
The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.
(See NIV)

1 Kings 2:34
Then 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.
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1 Kings 2:35
The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the army; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
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1 Kings 2:46
So 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.
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1 Kings 4:4
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
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1 Chronicles 4:36
and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
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1 Chronicles 11:22
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 11:23
He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and 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.
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 11:24
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 11:31
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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1 Chronicles 15:18
and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
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1 Chronicles 15:20
and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
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1 Chronicles 15:24
Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
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1 Chronicles 16:5
Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
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1 Chronicles 16:6
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
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1 Chronicles 18:17
and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
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1 Chronicles 27:5
The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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1 Chronicles 27:6
This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammizabad his son.
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1 Chronicles 27:14
The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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1 Chronicles 27:34
and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the captain of the king's army was Joab.
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2 Chronicles 20:14
Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of Yahweh in the midst of the assembly;
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2 Chronicles 31:13
Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
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Ezra 10:25
Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
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Ezra 10:30
Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
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Ezra 10:35
Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
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Ezra 10:43
Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
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Ezekiel 11:1
Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
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Ezekiel 11:13
It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
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Subtopics

Benaiah

Benaiah: A Chief of the Simeonites

Benaiah: A Levite in Time of Hezekiah

Benaiah: A Levitical Musician

Benaiah: A Priest

Benaiah: An Ephraimite, and Distinguished Warrior

Benaiah: Father of Pelatiah

Benaiah: Son of Bani

Benaiah: Son of Jehoiada, Commander of the Cherethites and Pelethites

Benaiah: Son of Jehoiada, Commander of the Cherethites and Pelethites: A Distinguished Warrior

Benaiah: Son of Jehoiada, Commander of the Cherethites and Pelethites: Loyal to Solomon