And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the first three.

He was honoured above the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David set him in his council.