^{17 Ref} and saith, `Far be it from me, O Jehovah, to do this; is it the blood of the men who are going with their lives?' and he was not willing to drink it; these `things' did the three mighty ones.

^{18 Ref} And Abishai brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, he `is' head of three, and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred -- wounded, and he hath a name among three.

^{19 Ref} Of the three is he not the honoured? and he becometh their head; and unto the `first' three he hath not come.