1 Chronicles 11:19, 21

and he said, “Be it far from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

Of the three in the second rank he was the most honored and became their commander; however, he did not attain to the first three.