In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] himself the leader of the thirty. He [was] wielding his spear against three hundred slain and {gained a name} among the thirty.

He was the most honored of the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.

He was most honored of the thirty, therefore he became their commander; however, he did not attain to the three.

Such things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and was the noblest of thirty: But not like to any of the three in facts of war.

Among the Thirty were Joab's brother Asahel, Dodo's son Elhanan of Bethlehem,

Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.