2 Samuel 2:14

2:14 Abner said to Joab, “Let the soldiers get up and fight ¹  before us.” Joab said, “So be it!” ² 

2 Samuel 3:32

3:32 So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly ³  over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

2 Samuel 15:17

15:17 The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing ⁴  at a spot ⁵  some distance away.

2 Samuel 22:39

22:39 I wipe them out and beat them to death;

they cannot get up;

they fall at my feet.

[2:14]  ¹ tn Heb “play.” What is in view here is a gladiatorial contest in which representative groups of soldiers engage in mortal combat before the watching armies. Cf. NAB “perform for us”; NASB “hold (have NRSV) a contest before us”; NLT “put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat.”

[2:14]  ² tn Heb “let them arise.”

[3:32]  ³ tn Heb “lifted up his voice and wept.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

[15:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they stood.”

[15:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “house.”