2 Samuel 6:13

6:13 Those who carried the ark of the Lord took six steps and then David ¹  sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.

2 Samuel 22:30

22:30 Indeed, ² with your help ³  I can charge ⁴  against an army; ⁵ 

by my God’s power ⁶  I can jump over a wall. ⁷ 

[6:13]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:30]  ² tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

[22:30]  ³ tn Heb “by you.”

[22:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 30 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [literally, “cause to run”] an army.”

[22:30]  ⁵ tn More specifically, the noun refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops (see HALOT 177 s.v. II גְדוּד). The picture of a divinely empowered warrior charging against an army in almost superhuman fashion appears elsewhere in ancient Near Eastern literature. See R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 228.

[22:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “by my God.”

[22:30]  ⁷ tn David uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.